The Caterpillar is brown with a pair of warts on the back of each segment. It has a brown head with rusty markings. It lives gregariously between leaves of its food plant joined together with silk.

It grows to a length of about 2 cms, and pupates in its leafy shelter.

The adult of this species is fawn with faint dark zig-zag lines across the wings, and narrow black wing margins. It also has a small transparent window at the base of each hindwing, which is characteristic of all species in the genus Hyalobathra. The moth has a wingspan of about 2 cms.

It is found in coastal north-eastern Australia.

Further reading :

Hari Sutrisno & Marianne Horak,
Revision of the Australian species of Hyalobathra Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae: Pyraustinae) based on adult morphologyand with description of a new species, Australian Journal of Entomology, Volume 42, part 3 (2003), pp. 233-248.

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(updated 24 February 2004)