[4][1] Recent research has shown that the genus Pseudatemelia is one of those close to Lypusa, the type of the family Lypusidae.

Consequently, Pseudatemelia subochreella has been assigned to the genus Agnoea, Lypusidae family, Gelechioidea superfamily.

[8] This moth is not conspicuously colored, even by the standards of its rather drab genus, being a ruddy ochraceous brown overall (hence the name subochreella), or more yellow-grey with darker hindwings.

Its caterpillars live inside a self-made case built from a folded piece of leaf, that is often attached to tree trunks or stones.

[8] They eat dead and decaying leaves and similar plant remains, and probably also rotting wood.