(Photo: courtesy of Sarah Renneberg, Boogan, Queensland)

The caterpillar grows to a length of about 3 cms. It pupates in a hard white spherical cocoon in a silk shelter between joined leaves.

female
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The female adult moths have pale brown forewings, each with a big central rusty-brown patch containing a white spot. The hindwings and body are brown.

male
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

The males have a similar pattern but the fore and hind wings are much darker. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

male
(Photo: courtesy of Bill Farnsworth, Innisfail, Queensland)

There are various patches of raised scales on the wings which give it a cryptic appearance in its resting pose.

female, drawing by Pieter C. T. Snellen, listed as Limacodes albiguttatus,
Nieuwe Exotische Tineinen, Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, Volume 22 (1878), Plate 10, fig. 1,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The eggs are translucent and flat. They are laid singly or in small groups on a foodplant.

The species has been found across south-east Asia, including:

and in Australia in:

undersides of wings of female, drawing by Pieter C. T. Snellen, listed as Limacodes albiguttatus,
Nieuwe Exotische Tineinen, Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, Volume 22 (1878), Plate 10, fig. 1,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

Further reading :

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 104.

Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen,
Lepidoptera van Celebes,
Tijdschrift voor Entomologie,
Volume 22 (1878), pp. 118-119, and also Plate 10, fig. 1.

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(updated 20 July 2014, 16 January 2026)