(Photo: courtesy of Peter Koch, Marrakai, Northern Territory)

The adult moth has forewings that are brown, each with a broad white stripe from base to termen which contains two black dots on the leading side. The hindwings are a silky white, with a brown margin and costa. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

(Specimen: courtesy of Alan Fletcher Research Station, Sherwood, Queensland)

The species has been found in

and across the northern half of Australia in:

drawing by Julius Lederer, listed as Euclasta maceratalis,
Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Pyralidinen, Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift,
Volume 7, Part 11 (1863), Taf. 15, Fig. 11,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 9, fig. 29, p. 356.

Julius Lederer,
Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Pyralidinen,
Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift,
Volume 7, Part 11 (1863), p. 423, and also Taf. 15, Fig. 11.

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(updated 28 December 2009, 28 December 2017, 2 October 2020)