The adult moth has forewings with a complex green pattern. The hindwings are plain pale grey, sometimes with darks marks at the torni, and are only about half the size of the forewings. The underside is a plain greenish grey. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

The species is found in :

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

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 11.31, pp. 67, 377.

Peter Hendry,
Lepidoptera legacy of the summer that was 2010/11,
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Metamorphosis Australia,
Issue 61 (June 2011), pp. 18-20.

Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera V,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 5, Part 4 (1891), pp. 804-805, No. 12.

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(updated 18 June 2011, 13 August 2024)