Crocidolomia pavonana Fabricius, 1794

Identification Marks: Palpi obliquely upturned, banded with fuscous, with tufts of hair at end of 1st and 2nd joints, the 3rd joint well-developed; maxillary palpi dilated with scales at extremity; antennae of male thickened and flattened with serrations. Head, thorax, abdomen and wings are pale ochreous; thorax marked with ferruginous or fuscous. Fore wing more or less suffused in parts with ferruginous and fuscous; male with the costal tuft ochreous and black; a double antemedial line highly dentate in and below cell; prominent dark-edged white spots at the angles of cell; a highly curved minutely dentate postmedial line with a series of black specks on it and indistinct line beyond it; an indistinct minutely waved submarginal line; cilia leaden coloured at tips; the fringe of hair below median nervure ochreous. Hind wings are semi-hyaline ochreous white; the apical area often more or less suffused with fuscous. (W.S. ♂ 23 mm).