(Photo: courtesy of Trevor Jinks, North Burnett, Queensland)

The adults have brown forewings with pale streaks, some containing elongated dark spots. The hindwings are bright yellow. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

mating pair: female on the right
(Photo: courtesy of Dave Britton, Armidale, New South Wales)

The species has been observed in:

female, drawing by Charles Swinhoe, listed as Synemon collecta,
Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum,
Part 1: Sphinges and Bombyces (1892), Plate VII, Fig. 16,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

Further reading :

Charles Swinhoe,
Sphinges and Bombyces,
Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum,
Clarendon Press, Part 1 (1892), pp. 151-152, No. 706, and also Plate 7, Fig. 16.

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(updated 6 November 2010, 24 August 2018, 30 July 2021)