Appearance
The wingspan is about 21–24 millimetres. The head is dull reddish brown and the thorax is pale brown. The legs are brown. The forewings are pale ocher yellow, whitest on the costal portion, and sprinkled with dark-brown scales to such an extent as to give them a wood-brown color.These dark-brown scales form a spot, nearly reaching a dark-brown costal streak over the end of the fissure, beyond which are two costal dark-brown spots, the first of which is the smaller. The fringes are smoke brown, cut with whitish once on the first lobe and twice on the outer margin of the hind lobe. The hindwings and fringes are brownish cinereous.
Food
The larvae are greenish, striped with wine color and white, and feed on ''Eupatorium'' species and ''Epilobium'' species. The larvae are gregarious. They feed externally by tying together the terminal shoots of the host plant with webbing and feeding on them. Pupae are green, ornamented with wine-colored and white lines.References:
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