as well as :

(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott,
taken in Peter Mackey's garden at Mt Eerwah, Queensland)

The caterpillar often bores into the stems, or eats the flesh inside the leaves staying inside the intact translucent epidermis. On average, a caterpillar has been reported to eat 240 square centimetres of leaf in its lifetime. The caterpillar grows to a length of about 5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Roaminoz Crew, Burpengary, Queensland)

The adult moth has brown forewings. The hind wings are pale, darkening toward the margins. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Paolo Mazzei, Diego Reggianti, Ilaria Pimpinelli, Rome, Italy)

The pheromones have been elucidated.

The eggs are pale yellow, and laid in regular arrays of about 50 on the leaf of a foodplant.

The species occurs in :

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 49.18, p. 465.

Ron May,
Observations of moth and parasitoid,
METAMORPHOSIS, Magazine of the Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club, Number 62, September 2011, pp. 13-14.

Ron May,
Brithys crini in Australia: from bush to suburbia,
Bulletin, Entomological Society of Queensland, Volume 28, Issue 4, 2000, pp. 73-76.

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(updated 10 April 2011)