The Caterpillar is white with a brown head.

(Photo: courtesy of Roger Williams, Australian National Botanical Gardens, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moth has black forewings, each with a small pale comma mark near the middle. The hindwings are either grey or orange. It has a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.

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

The species occurs in

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 29.18, p. 318.

Edward Meyrick,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 2 (1920), p. 339.

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. 289.

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(updated 27 April 2009, 20 September 2022)