(Photo: courtesy of Trevor Jinks, North Burnett, Queensland)

The adults have brown forewings with pale streaks, some containing elongated dark spots. The hindwings are bright yellow with an arc of dark brown spots. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

mating pair: female on the right
(Photo: courtesy of Dave Britton, Armidale, New South Wales)

The species has been observed in:

female, listed as Synemon collecta,
drawing by F.C. Moore, lithograph by Mintern Bros. for Swinhoe,
Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum,
Part 1: Sphinges and Bombyces (1892), Plate VII, Fig. 16,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

listed as Synemon collecta
drawing by Strand, lithograph by Hochdanz Co., printed by Werner & Winter, for Seitz
in The Macrolepidoptera of the World, Alfred Kernen Verlag, Volume 10 (1933), Plate 1, fig c4,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

Further reading :

Charles Swinhoe,
Sphinges and Bombyces,
Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum,
Clarendon Press, Part 1 (1892), pp. 151-152, No. 706, and also Plate 7, Fig. 16.

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(updated 6 November 2010, 1 October 2026)