(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

The adult moth has fawn forewings, each with variable dark markings, including a dark-edged pale submarginal line edged by a row of black triangles, and sometimes a black mark near the base. The hindwings are fawn shading to a dark margin, with a vague submarginal band. The head appears to have a black collar. The males have a bunch of pale eversible hairs on the tip of the abdomen. The moth has a wing span of about 4 cms.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens, Upper Beaconsfield, Victoria)

The broad dark band along the margin of the underside of the forewing is diagnostic for this species.

The species has been found in :

as well as widely in Australia, including:

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 44.19, p. 450.

Achille Guenée,
Noctuélites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 6, Tome 2 (1852), p. 437, No. 1308.

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 10-11, 22-23.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 148.

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(updated 28 July 2013, 23 February 2019, 18 August 2020)