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

The adult moth is a metallic dark brown with three vague yellow marks on each forewing. The prothorax and abdomen are orange The moth has a wingspan of about 2 cms.

The species has been found in:

drawing by Arthur G. Butler, listed as Procris trimacula,
Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum,
Part 1 (1877), Plate VI, fig. 8,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Gerstein Library, University of Toronto.

Further Reading:

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 1 (1854), p. 110, No. 12.

Gerhard M. Tarmann,
Zygaenid moths of Australia, CSIRO Publishing 2005, pp. 59, 63, 66-67, 84-86, 112, 120, 128, pls. 11, 64.

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(updated 22 December 2012, 19 November 2019, 5 September 2020)