(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings with a bluish sheen. Each has a variable white spot, a vague dark patch near the middle, and two wavy transverse dark-edged pale lines. The hindwings are brown, each crossed by one dark-edged pale line. The forewing tips are recurved, and the forewing margins have a cusp. The wingspan is about 5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Dominic Funnell, Caravonica, Queensland)

The species has been found in

and in Australia in

Further reading :

Miss A.E. Prout,
Some apparently new Species and Forms of Noctuidae,
Bulletin of the Hill Museum Witley,
Volume 1 (1922), p. 240, No. 59.

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(written 6 April 2015)