Male

The male and female adult moths are different.

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

The female moth has white wings with a number of dark dots near the middle of each forewing, and a row of dark dots along each margin.

The males have similar forewings, but the hindwings are black. The adult moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.

The species is found in

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common, Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 23.14, p. 230.

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(updated 30 August 2011)