Paracossus Hampson

Taxonomic note

This genus, as circumscribed by Schoorl (1990), contains species where the male antennae are variously unilobed, bilobed, or more pectinate, and where the female antennae, where known, are prismatic. The only autapomorphy indicated in the cladistic analysis (Schoorl, 1990: 54‑55) is reduction in length of the fringes of the wing margins. The labial palps have scaling that is short ventrally and moderately long dorsally. The genus is distributed from India to Sulawesi (16 species listed by Schoorl), with one undescribed species in New Guinea. It appears to be sister‑group (Schoorl, 1990: 55) to four New World genera.