The forewings of the adult moths have a striking pattern of orange, brown, and white markings. The hindwings have a brown and white pattern, edged with a black arc containing white and yellow spots. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

This species can be distinguished from the similar Nymphicula queenslandica by the near-straight hindwing subterminal lines, the mainly orange (rather than mainly white) near-basal stripe across the forewing, and the larger metallic patch in the middle of the forewing.

The species has been found in Australia in :

Further reading :

David J.L. Agassiz,
A preliminary study of the genus Nymphicula Snellen from Australia, New Guinea and the south Pacific (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae: Acentropinae),
Zootaxa,
Volume 3774, Part 5 (2014), pp. 401–429.

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(written 13 April 2019)