[1] It has a wide range in the tropics, and has been recorded from the British Indian Ocean Territory, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Socotra, India, Myanmar, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Sumatra.

There is an indistinct postmedial line running out to an angle on vein 5, retracted along vein 2 to below middle of the cell, then bent outwards again, the area beyond it whiter.

An indistinct highly dentate submarginal line present.

[3] The larvae feed on Eleusine indica and Panicum species.

This article relating to the moth tribe Crambini is a stub.