Barantola panarista (Turner, 1917) (previously known as Periclita panarista) DEPRESSARIIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of David Rentz, Kuranda, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has sivery white forewings, each having orange markings outlined in brown, and a red and orange line along the costa and margin. The hindwings are white with brown wingtips. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species is found in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 51.

A. Jefferis Turner,
Lepidopterological gleanings,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 29 (1917), pp. 100-101.

Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths, CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 80.

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(updated 18 September 2010, 9 August 2019)