(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moths have fawn forewings with various markings often including a pale line from wingtip to near the middle of the hind margin. The hindwings are pale grey darkening toward the margins. The moths have a wingspan of about 4 cms.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

This species may be found across south-east Asia, including

and has also been found in Australia in

male, drawing by Frederic Moore, listed as Aletia reversa,
The Lepidoptera of Ceylon, L. Reeve, London, Volume 3 (1884), Plate 144, fig. 6,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 465.

Frederic Moore,
The Lepidoptera of Ceylon,
L. Reeve, London, Volume 3 (1884), p. 6, and also Plate 144, fig. 6.

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(updated 24 August 2004, 17 April 2021)