cocoon
(Photo: courtesy of Geoff Byrne, Coral Bay, Western Australia)

The caterpillar pupated in a white cocoon in between leaves of its foodplant.

male
(Photo: courtesy of Geoff Byrne, Coral Bay, Western Australia)

The adult moths of this species have yellow or pale brown wings, each normally with two black spots near the costa, and with vague dark transverse arcs composed of radial black dashes. The wingspan of the female is about 4.5 cms. The wingspan of the male is about 3.5 cms.

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

The females have hooked tips to the forewings.

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

The species occurs in

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Geoff Byrne, Coral Bay, Western Australia)

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. 351-352.

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(written 4 November 2018, updated 8 April 2019, updated 27 August 2021)