kingdom: Animalia >
phylum: Arthropoda >
class: Insecta >
order: Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758 >
superfamily: Cossoidea >
family: Cossidae >
subfamily: Cossinae >
tribe: Cossini >
genus: Paropta Staudinger, 1899 >
species: Paropta paradoxa (Herrich-Schäffer) >