feeding on the wood and the bark.

The male and female adult moths are different.

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

The male has white forewings and grey hindwings. The forewings are edged with black dots. He has feathered antennae, and a wingspan of about 3 cms.

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

Both forewings and hindwings of the female are white, both having a black dots around the margin, and sometimes three or four black dots around the forewing cell. She has thread-like antennae, and a wingspan of about 4 cms.

The species is found in

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 230.

Ian McMillan,
Cryptophasa epadelpha, Xyloryctine Moths of Australia,
Blog, Thursday, September 16, 2010.

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(updated 26 May 2011, 27 November 2023)