but the caterpillars have been recorded on plants from other families, including:

The caterpillars grow to a length of about 3 cms., and pupate in a loose cocoon in a curled up leaf.

(Photo: Don Herbison-Evans, Bundaberg, Queensland)

The adults are fawn with a prominent white bar diagonally across each forewing. The moths have a large brown tuft on the thorax, and smaller tufts on the abdomen.

(Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Kuratau, New Zealand)

The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms. The sex attractant pheromones of this moth have been elucidated.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The species is found all over south-east Asia and the west Pacific, including:

as well as Australia, in:

(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

Further reading :

Otto Bremer & William Grey,
Beiträge zur schmetterlings-fauna des Noerdlichen China's,
St. Petersburg, 1853, p. 18.

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 48.14, p. 459.

Peter Marriott & Marilyn Hewish
Moths of Victoria - Part 9,
Cutworms and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020, pp. 8-9.

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(updated 2 September 2012, 17 April 2018, 10 December 2020)