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

The adults are grey or fawn and orange, with with dark wiggly lines on the forewings, and a dark spot near the centre of each hindwing. The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms. They are found over most of the non-tropical regions of Australia, including:

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 34.10, p. 364.

Catherine J. Young,
Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini and a Phylogeny for the Geometridae from Molecular and Morphological Data, Ph.D. thesis, University of Tasmania, 2003.

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(updated 14 July 2010)