Male
(Photo: courtesy of Landcare Research Ltd., New Zealand)

The adult moth has dark brown forewings with a pale spot near the middle, and an irregular broad white line along the hind margin. The white lines join up visually when the moth is in its resting position. The head bears an off-white tuft of hairy scales.

   
(Photos: courtesy of Wendy Moore, Melbourne, Victoria)

The moth has shiny buff hind wings. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

Female
(Photo: courtesy of Landcare Research Ltd., New Zealand)

The species has been found in

as well as over most of Australia, including

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 184.

Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), p. 43.

Edward Newman,
Characters of a few Australian Lepidoptera, Collected by Mr. Thomas R. Oxley,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
New Series, Volume III, Number 8 (1856), pp. 288-289.

Gaden S. Robinson & Ebbe S. Nielsen,
Tineid Genera of Australia,
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 2,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1993.

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(updated 17 September 2013, 11 October 2018, 14 August 2019, 22 November 2020)