Panacela syntropha Turner, 1922 PANACELINAE,   EUPTEROTIDAE,   BOMBYCOIDEA

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

male
(Photo: courtesy of Nicholas J. Fisher, Tamborine Mountain, Queensland)

The adult male and female moths are rather different. The male is brown with a narrow dark medial line and some other vague dark markings on each wing. The forewing tips are hooked. The antennae are feathery. The wingspan of the male is about 3 cms.

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

The female is grey, with three vague dark lines across each forewing. The wingtips have no recurve. The antennae are thread-like. The females seem to loose scales from the wings and the body rather more easily than the males, or maybe they live longer The wingspan of the female is about 4 cms.

female
(Photo: courtesy of Rob Reed, Julatten, Queensland)

The species has been found in Australia, in

New South Wales.

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

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Saturniadae, Bombycidae, Eupterotidae, Notodontidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 47 (1922), pp. 358-359.

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(written 28 March 2019, updated 4 July 2026)