The caterpillar grows to a length of about 3 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moth has rusty brown forewings with a metallic silver pattern consisting of curved arcs along the costa and a subterminal dotted line. The hindwings are silky white. Each wing has a hairy fringe. The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.

(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

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

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,  
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 23.14, p. 222.

Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia I: The Wingia Group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 3,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1994, pp. 266, 268, 270.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera, XIV Oecophoridae (continued),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 2, Part 4 (1888), p. 937.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 181.

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(updated 3 November 2012, 18 October 2013, 16 December 2014, 10 January 2015, 15 October 2020)