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

The adults have rather boring pinkish brown forewings, each sometimes with a vague broad slightly dark transverse band, or just the faint dark lines where the band boundaries would be. The hindwings are a uniform pale brown. The moths have a wing span of about 2 cms.

The species may be found in the southern half of Australia, including

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 53.8, p. 348.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 7, Part 2 (1882), p. 172.

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(updated 22 June 2010, 30 August 2019 19 November 2020, 3 February 2022)