The adults are brown with a diagonal pale line outlined in dark brown running across each wing. Also each forewing has a dumbell shaped mark and a small white dot. The wings all have scalloped margins.

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

The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.

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

Specimens have been taken in

Queensland.

The eggs are white and laid singly on the edge of the underside of leaves of a foodplant.

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(updated 7 February 2011)