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

The adult moth has brown forewings each with five or six black spots near the tornus and some vague variable darker spots and incomplete bands elswhere. The hindwings are brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

The species has been found in eastern Australia, including:

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. 52.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. IV. Tineina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 5, Number 2 (1880), pp. 223-224.

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(written 16 October 2019, updated 8 December 2020)