This species lives in the rain forests of north Queensland and New Guinea.

(Specimen: courtesy of the The Australian Museum)

The adults are dark brown except for a yellow thorax, yellow forewing tips, a yellow tuft of hair on the tip of the abdomen, and a scarlet edge to the hind wings. They have a wingspan of about 5 cms.

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 429.

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