The adult moth is brown with a bold zig-zag pattern in shiny white and rusty brown on the forewings. The hindwings are a uniform brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda)

The eggs are flat and laid patially overlapped in round groups of approximately a dozen.

The species occurs in:

J.A. Powell and Ian F.B. Common,
Oviposition Patterns and Egg Characteristics of Australian Tortricine Moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), Australian Journal of Zoology, Volume 33, Number 2, pp. 179-216.

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