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

The adult moths have alternating broad brown and white bands on the wings. The forewings each have a convex bulge on the costa, and a concave section of the margin, giving a hooked wingtip. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

The species is found in south-east Asia, including:

and in eastern Australia, including :

Walker originally described this species in Part 34 of his descriptions of British Museum specimens, giving it the same name as another species he had described which is now called Calindoea polygraphalis. In the next issue, Part 35, he corrected this giving it a new and different name.

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, Figs. 31.5, 53.7, p. 342.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 209.

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera (polygraphalis),
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 34, Supplement 4 (1866), p. 1245.

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera (polyphoralis),
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 35, Supplement 5 (1866), p. 1977.

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(written 23 July 2015, updated 31 August 2020)