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

The adult moth is yellow or reddish, often with black speckles, and a subterminal pale-edged dark line on each wing. The forewings sometimes have dark lines and spots especially at the wingtip and near the tornus. The forewings of the female have recurved pointed wingtips. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

The species has been found in Australia in

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 10.18, p. 369.

Achille Guenée,
Uranides et Phalénites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 9 (1857), p. 143, No. 229, and also Plate 9, fig. 8.

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: Part 4,
Emeralds and Allies - GEOMETROIDEA (B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2013, pp. 12-13.

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(updated 23 August 2013, 13 February 2019, 8 June 2021)