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

The adult moth of this species has forewings with a lacey brown pattern on off-white. The hindwings are plain yellow. The moths have a wing span of about 2.5 cms.

The species may be found over much of Australia, including:

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, figs. 13.1, 13.2, pl. 4.8, p. 222.

Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia I: The Wingia Group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 3,
CSIRO Publishing, 1994, pp. 268-270.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera, VIII Oecophoridae (continued),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 7, Part 4 (1883), p. 486.

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(updated 1 November 2012, 16 December 2014, 10 January 2015, 6 November 2020)