The adult moth of this species has yellow forewings, each with a broad brown margin, and are covered in irregular bright orange lines and spots.

photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

The species occurs in south-east Asia, including:

and in Australia in:

Further reading :

Johan Christian Fabricius,
Historiae Natvralis Favtoribvs,
Systema Entomologiae,
Flensburgi et Lipsiae (1775), p. 653, No. 47.

Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai,
Olethreutine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series, Volume 10,
CSIRO Publishing, 2006.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 212.

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(updated 12 February 2010)