Parapalpares Insom & Carfi, 1988

Parapalpares Insom & Carfi, 1988: 76 .

Type species: Palpares latipennis Rambur, 1842: 374 . Original designation.

Diagnosis. Parapalpares is very similar to Palpares but can be characterized by elongated labial palp with distal clavate palpimacula reaching apex (Fig. 14D–F), thorax brownish yellow without distinct median longitudinal brownish stripe (Fig. 14A), abdomen uniformly pale yellowish brown (Fig. 12A–B), male sternite 9 with round apex (Fig. 15D), male ectoprocts cylindrical, moderately curved at base, and male gonocoxites 9 paired and widely separated with each other, with acute apex and acutely tapering basal projection (Fig. 15E–G).

Distribution. Afrotropical, Southern Palearctic and Western Oriental (Stange 2004; Machado et al. 2019).

Remarks. Parapalpares is a small genus with eight valid species, mainly distributed in the Afrotropical (5 spp.), Palaearctic (3 sp.) and Oriental (1 sp.) regions (Stange 2004; Akoudjin & Michel 2011; Mirmoayedi et al. 2015; Prost 2018; Oswald 2021). Among the Palaearctic species, P. dispar (Navás, 1912) is known from the Palearctic (Iran) to Afrotropical (Northern Africa, Algeria, Egypt to Oman) region (Stange 2014; Mirmoayedi et al. 2015), P. papilionoides (Klug in Ehrenberg, 1834) is distributed in Afrotropical Africa (southwest and central east) to Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Yemen) and Israel (Ábrahám 2012; El Hamouly et al. 2019; Oswald 2021), whereas P. solidus (Gerstaecker) is known from the Palaearctic (Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey, and Uzbekistan) to the Oriental (Pakistan) region (Insom & Carfi 1988; Iqbal & Yousuf 1990: Fig. 16).