female
(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)

The male adult moth has wings that are dark brown, with a yellow area around the base of each forewing. The female moth has a more complex forewing pattern. The hindwings are pale brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

and also lately in

underside
(Photo: copyright of Brett and Marie Smith, at Ellura Sanctuary, South Australia)

Further reading

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. V. Tortricina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 6, Number 3 (1881), pp. 454-455, No. 9.

Francis Walker,
Heterocerous Lepidoptera,
Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera Heterocera,
E.W. Janson, London, 1869, p. 83, No. 41.

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(updated 17 March 2011, 6 July 2019, 29 July 2020)