(Photo: courtesy of Joan Fearn, Moruya, New South Wales)

The adult moths have a pattern of light and dark fawn on the wings. They have a wingspan of about 10 cms.

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

The eggs are black and ellipsoidal. They are laid in circular spiral piles around stem of a foodplant, with the long axes pointing radially.

eggs
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Crowcroft, Anglesea, Victoria)

The species occurs in the south-east quarter of mainland Australia, including:

male
drawing by by E.H. Zeck, listed as Culama rubiginosa,
in Walter W. Froggatt: Forest insects of Australia, Sydney 1923, Frontispiece, fig. 4,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by NCSU Libraries.

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 26.4, p. 270.

Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), p. 67.

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 5 (1855), p. 1098, No. 1.

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(updated 23 July 2010, 31 January 2019, 2 June 2020)