(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 2)

The adult forewings are dark greyish brown, each with pale markings including pale stripes along the costa, and the hind margin. The hindwings are orange. The males have more contrasting markings than the females. The wingspan is of the female is about 7 cms. The wingspan is of the female is about 5.5 cms.

female
(Photo: courtesy of Paul Kay, Victoria)

male
(Photo: courtesy of Paul Kay, Victoria)

The species occurs in :

(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 2)

The eggs are pale green and spherical. They are laid amid tail hairs from the mother.

male, drawing by Rudolf Felder, listed as Hyleora capucina,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (1875), Plate XCVIII, fig. 1,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 17.14, p. 421.

Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologischer Theil: Lepidoptera,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (1875), p. 5, and also Plate 98, fig. 1.

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: part 2,
Tiger Moths and their Allies - Noctuoidea (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2009, pp. 8-9, 14-15.

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(updated 7 April 2013, 6 February 2021)