The adult moth is brown with three dark areas along the costa, and a pale submarginal arc on each forewing.

The species has been found in

This species is thought to be a synonym for Sinpunctiptilia emissalis.

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 30.16, pp. 332-333.

Thomas B. Fletcher,
On Walker's Types of plume-moths in the National Collection: redescriptions and notes,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1926, p. 607.

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(updated 23 August 2004, 4 April 2024)