Records include New Caledonia, Réunion, Thailand, Fiji, Hawaii, India, Sri Lanka, the Society Islands, as well as New South Wales and Queensland in Australia.

It is an introduced species in southern Florida and Louisiana in the United States.

Antennae of male knotted and contorted and with a slight tuft of scales at middle.

Hardly a trace of dark suffusion found inside the submarginal line, the area beyond it ochreous brown.

Hindwings with dark suffusion, but lack grey color as in other species.