(Photo: courtesy of Evan Harris, Ipswich, Queensland)

The adult moth has fawn wings with a band of a different shade along the outer edge of each wing. The forewings each have a comma-shaped mark near the middle. The wing margins are scalloped. Each forewing tip is hooked, and each hindwing tornus is cusped. The moth has a wingspan of about 9 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Scott Gavins, Fraser Coast, Queensland)

The species is found across south-east Asia, including:

and is also found in Australia in:

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Scott Gavins, Fraser Coast, Queensland)

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 45.7, p. 451.

Pieter Cramer,
Description de Papillons Exotiques,
Uitlandsche kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen,
Amsterdam Baalde, Volume 3 (1782), p. 140, figs. E,F, and also Plate 269, figs. E,F.

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(updated 26 June 2010)