The adult moths have brown patchy forewings, each with a submarginal black zig-zag line. The hindwings are pale brown, each with a similar zig-zag submarginal line to that on each forewing, and also a big brown patch from the wingtip along the margin.

male, underside
(Photo: courtesy of Olga Schmidt, Queensland Museum)

The species is found in

Further reading :

Olga Schmidt,
An annotated and illustrated list of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane),
Spixiana,
Volume 5, Part 1 (2012), pp. 79-100, Figs. 24 a,b.

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 56 (1932), p. 176.

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(written 15 June 2015)