The adult moths have brown and white forewings, and yellow hindwings which have a wide black margin. The moths have a wingspan of about 4 cms.

Its range is from the Atherton Tableland in Queensland through New South Wales, and Victoria to Tasmania and South Australia. It has an annual lifecycle and the adults fly in late summer and autumn.

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 366.

Catherine J. Young,
Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini and a Phylogeny for the Geometridae from Molecular and Morphological Data, Ph.D. thesis, University of Tasmania, 2003.

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