(Photo: courtesy of Colin Trainor, Belyando, Queensland)

The adult moth has wings that are off-white, each with a marginal row of whiter spots, a variable faint submarginal wavy brown line, and sometimes a brownish spot near the middle.

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

The abdomen is yellow, with a pale yellow anal tuft. The males have orange hairs around the anal tuft. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

male
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, listed as Epicoma subargentea)

This species occurs in :

underside, male
(Photo: courtesy of Craig Nieminski, Darwin, Northern Territory)

Further reading :

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 177.

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 32, Supplement 2 (1865), p. 355.

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 32, Supplement 2 (1865), p. 397.

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(updated 11 November 2012, 8 February 2023)