Paraphyas callixena Turner, 1927 CNEPHASIINI,   TORTRICINAE,   TORTRICIDAE,   TORTRICOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

The adult moth of this species has pale brown forewings, each with one large and one small dark triangle on the costa. The hindwings are off-white darkening at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New and Little Known Tasmanian Lepidoptera, Part II,
courtesy of the
Library Open Repository, University of Tasmania Library,
Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania,
1926, p. 122.

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(written 23 June 2019, updated 26 May 2021)