The male adult moth has brown forewings, each with grey areas, and a black zigzag line near the middle. The hindwings are plain brown. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

as well as in Australia in

male: drawing by Embrik Strand, listed as Orgyia postica
in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag, Volume 10 (1933), Plate 42, fig i2,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

Further reading :

Jules C.E. Riotte,
1976 Kurze Notiz zur Kenntnis einer neuen Art der Gattung Orgyia von Papua New Guinea und Australien (Lep. Lymantriidae),
Entomologische Zeitung, Frankfurt am Mainz,
Volume 86, Part 9 (1976), pp. 89-93.

Jules C.E. Riotte,
1976 Australian and Papuan Tussock Moths of the Orgyia Complex (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae),
Pacific Insects,
Volume 20, Parts 2-3 (1979), pp. 293-311.

Embrik Strand,
Pantana - Laelia,
in Adalbert Seitz (ed.):
The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag, Volume 10 (1933), p. 304, and also Plate 42, fig i2.

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(updated 28 February 2012, 7 February 2023)