Paraphyas callixena Turner, 1927
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Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Paraphyas callixena
(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.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

  • Tasmania, and
  • Western Australia.


    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)