The adult moth has brown forewings with a yellow diagonal bar and a red inner margin.

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

The hindwings are dark brown, each with an orange mark near the middle, and yellow scalloping around the edge. The moths have a wingspan of about 5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda)

The species is found in

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 10.11, p. 366.

Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths, CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 138.

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(updated 8 November 2010)