1. Live pictures

1.1. Imago

2. Diagnosis

1-3: ♂, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

1-6: two ♀♀, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

2.1. Original description

1-2: Butler (1886: 435-436) [from copyright-free scans at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Further information

3.1. Other combinations

• Idaea lydia Butler, 1886 [original combination]

3.2. Synonyms

• Idaea jessica Butler, 1886 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Acidalia prosaula Guest, 1887 [synonym according to funet.fi]

3.3. Literature

• Original description: Butler, A. G. (1886): Descriptions of 21 new genera and 103 new species of Lepidoptera-Heterocera from the Australian Region. — The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for the Year 1886: 381-441, pl. IX-X.