The adults are a beautiful green colour, with a brown line along the costa of each forewing with two adjacent brown dots, and brown dots along the margin of each hind wing, and often along the abdomen. The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Bart Hacobian, Queensland)

The green wings are blotchy, in contrast to the green Pyralids in the genus Parotis, which have uniformly coloured wings, see for example : Parotis suralis.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species occurs over south-east Asia, including :

as well as in Australia in

Further reading :

Francis Walker,
Pyralides,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 18 (1859), p. 532, No. 33.

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(updated 1 February 2013, 8 December 2022)