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

The adult moth has a dark brown body, and brown wings. The wings are speckled sparsely with white dots, and have an irregular band of white along the margins. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

female plus eggs
(Photo: courtesy of John Bromilow, Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory)

The eggs are laid in in irregular clusters of about 20 to 30, and covered in hairs from the females abdominal tail tuft. The eggs are spherical and white.

eggs plus hairy camouflage
(Photo: courtesy of John Bromilow, Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory)

The species is found over the eastern half of Australia, including

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 43.11, p. 429.

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 2,
Tiger Moths and their Allies - Noctuoidea (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2009, pp. 16-19.

Francis Walker,
Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 4 (1855), pp. 845-846, No. 2.

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(updated 26 June 2010, 6 March 2020)