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

The adult moths of this species are have dark brown wings with pale yellow spots. The body is black, with a yellow spot on the thorax, and with brown bands between the abdominal segments. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

The species has been found in:

The moths look remarkably like those in the genus Amata in CTENUCHINAE.

Further Reading:

Gerhard M. Tarmann,
Zygaenid moths of Australia,
CSIRO Publishing 2004, pp. 21-22, 27, 60, 216-217, 219, pl. 57.

Charles Swinhoe,
Sphinges and Bombyces,
Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the Oxford University Museum,
Clarendon Press, Part 1 (1892), p. 55, No. 236

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 26 (1902), p. 200.

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(written 25 December 2018, updated 3 December 2023)