(Photo: by Jeff Wright, courtesy of Chris Burwell, Queensland Museum).
The adult moths have dark brown forewings, each with several dark spots.
(Photo: by Jeff Wright, courtesy of Chris Burwell, Queensland Museum).
The moths are noted for congregating in enormous numbers in some areas in southern Queensland in autumn (March, April), closely covering plant leaves like tiles on a roof.
Further reading :
Chris J. Burwell and S.G. Wright,
Autumn aggregations of Dichomeris capnites (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)
News Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Queensland,
Volume 32, Number 4 (2004), pp. 90-92.
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 259.
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