[4][1] Papua New Guinea and Australia (Queensland, Northern Territory, New South Wales, Victoria).

Early instar caterpillars are green and brown, with sparse hairs that are spiky in shape.

As they grow, they come to feature orange feet and head, are banded predominantly black and white with two orange bands (respectively on the final abdominal segment and on the mesothorax) and the sparse hairs become club-shaped with white tips.

[2] Adult moths are diurnal and have black wings with yellow, red, white and blue markings.

[2] Caterpillars of Agarista agricola feed on vines of multiple Vitaceae species: Cissus opaca, Cayratia clematidea, Vitis vinifera.