(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda)

The adult moth of this species has dark brown forewings. The male has white patches on the costa. The female has an orange basal area. For both sexes: the hindwings are brown with orange basal areas. The moth has a wing span of about 2 cms.

Illustrations 15 and 16 ,  Plate CLXXII of Hampson's Noctuidae of the British Museum, 1903-1913.
(Courtesy of Joe Kunkel, University of Massachusetts)

The species has been found in