(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moths of this species have grey/brown forewings each with a dark basal half, and a paler marginal half. The hindwings are white, each with black veins and a broad ragged brown band along the margin. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

This species has been found in :

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Larvae and pupae of Imma acosma (Turner) and I. vaticina Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Immidae), and the taxonomic relationships of the family,
Journal of the Australian Entomological Society,
Vol. 18 (1979), pp. 33-38.

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 29.14, p. 312.

Edward Meyrick,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 1, Part 2 (1912), p. 39.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 98.

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