These Caterpillars live in bore holes in trees.

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville)

The adult moths have a variable pattern of light and dark fawn on the wings. The moths are very large. The females are larger than the males, and have a wingspan up to 23 cms.

(Picture: courtesy of CSIRO Entomology)

The species occurs over

New South Wales.

(Picture: courtesy of the Burkes Backyard Television Show)

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Further reading :

David Carter,
Butterflies and Moths, Collins Eyewitness Handbooks, Sydney 1992, p. 293.

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 26.12, p. 271.

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