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

The adults are pale brown with striking dark markings on each forewing. The females have thread-like antennae. The males have antennae with a feather-like fringe on one side.

female, drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Colobochila personalis,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), Plate CXX, fig. 20,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The species is found in

Further reading :

Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologischer Theil: Lepidoptera,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), p. 7, and also Plate 120, fig. 20.

Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths,
CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 144.

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(updated 20 June 2013, updated 6 September 2020)