The adult moth has white forewings with a bold pattern of dark grey or brown patches, and yellow hindwings each with a dark patch. The moths have a wingspan of about 4 cms.

(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

The moths have been found in

wing undersides
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 5)

Further reading :

Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria: Part 5,
Satin Moths and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2014, pp. 20-21.

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of the Australian Lepidoptera. VI,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 42 (1917), pp. 388-389, No. 127.

Cathy Byrne,
Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini and a Phylogeny for the Geometridae from Molecular and Morphological Data,
Ph.D. thesis, University of Tasmania, 2003.

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(updated 22 April 2012, 9 January 2016, 8 September 2021)