female
(Photo: courtesy of Marion Purnell, near Coffs Harbour, New South Wales)

The adult moths emerge in late summer (February and March).

The female adult moths of this species have green forewings with white markings, and pale orange hindwings. they have a wingspan of about 10 cms.

male, oops no abdomen
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The males have blue-green forewings with white markings, and also blue-green hindwings. Their wingspan is about 8 cms. The colour of the males fades over time in museum specimens.

female
(Picture: courtesy of Shell Australia)

The species is found in

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pls. 1.6, 1.7, p. 148.

Thomas J. Simonsen,
Splendid Ghost Moths and their Allies,
A Revision of Australian Abantiades, Oncopera, Aenetus, Archaeoaenetus and Zelotypia (Hepialidae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 12,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 2018.

Alexander Walker Scott,
On the genus Charagia of Walker,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales,
Volume 2 (1869) p. 32, No. 5.

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(updated 21 March 2011, 9 April 2021)