male
(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

The adult moths of this species are dark brown, with two white spots on each forewing, and one on each hindwing. The male moths have a wingspan of about 3.5 cms. The female moths have a wingspan of about 4.5 cms.

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

The species is found in

male, underside
(Photo: courtesy of Michael Jefferies, Stanthorpe, Queensland)

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 40.3, p. 395.

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 1,
Silk Moths and Allies - BOMBYCOIDEA,
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2008, pp. 20-21.

Edward Newman,
Characters of a few Australian Lepidoptera, Collected by Mr. Thomas R. Oxley,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
New Series, Volume III, Number 8 (1856), p. 284, No. 2, and also Plate 18, fig. 9.

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(updated 19 October 2010, 19 May 2014, 23 July 2019)