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

The adult moth is a metallic dark brown with three vague pale marks on each forewing. The prothorax and abdomen are orange The moth has a wingspan of about 2 cms.

listed as Procris trimacula,
lithograph by William Wood, printed by George Henry Ford & William West, for Arthur_Gardiner_Butler,
Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum,
Part 1 (1877), Plate VI, fig. 8,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Gerstein Library, University of Toronto.

The species has been found in:

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 i1,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

Further Reading:

Arthur Gardiner Butler,
ZYGÆNIDÆ,
Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum,
Part 1 (1877), p. 13 and Plate 3, fig. 3.

Karl Jordan,
Zygaenidae, Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges,
in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag,
Volume 10, (1933), Plate 1, fig i1.

Gerhard M. Tarmann,
Zygaenid moths of Australia, CSIRO Publishing 2005, pp. 59, 63, 66-67, 84-86, 112, 120, 128, pls. 11, 64.

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 1 (1854), p. 110, No. 12.

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