(Photo: copyright Cathy Byrne)

The adult moths have brown forewings with variable dark markings. The hindwings are yellow, sometimes with partial brown bands along the margins The moths repose with the wings held across the back like a tent. The wingspan is about 6 cms.

male
(Photo: courtesy of Marilyn Hewish, Moths of Victoria: Part 5)

eggs magnified
(Photo: copyright Cathy Byrne)

The eggs are laid in an irregular array. They are oval, and coloured dull red, and covered in tiny pimples.

The species is found in the mountains of

showing wing undersides
(Photo: courtesy of Marilyn Hewish, 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. 6-7, 32-33.

Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of new Australian Heterocera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 17 (1893), p. 288.

Catherine J. Young,
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 17 September 2011, 11 January 2016, 19 April 2019)