The early instars feed on the roots underground, and may take two to three years to mature.

Drawing by Embrik Strand,
Synemon - Epicop, Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges,
in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag, Volume 10 (1933), Plate 9, fig b4,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

The adult moths of this species have brown forewings each traversed by variable vague pale bands, and dark brown hindwings with orange markings. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

The species is found in

underside
Drawing by Embrik Strand,
Synemon - Epicop, Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges,
in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag, Volume 10 (1933), Plate 9, fig b4,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

Further reading

Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), p. 70.

Embrik Strand,
Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region,
in Adalbert Seitz (ed.):
The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag, Volume 10 (1933), p. 2, and also Plate 9, fig b4.

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(written 27 August 2018, updated 28 August 2018)