Alternatively it has been placed in the Elachistidae or Depressariinae together with its presumed closest relatives.

The wingspan of this day-flying (or diurnal) moth is 17–21 mm, and it is quite colorful, with a light to dark rusty-red background, bold white markings and a more delicate metallic-blue pattern.

[3] Meyrick describes it - Head and thorax are yellow, with a central dark fuscous stripe.

Forewings yellow, posteriorly becoming deeper and suffused with dark fuscous,especially on veins; a bluish-silvery blackish-edged streak from base above middle to 2/5, thence bent down to join a similar straight subdorsal streak from base above middle of dorsum; a bluish-silvery blackish-edged transverse streak from costa before middle to disc; a large whitish -yellow dark -edged triangular spot on costa at 2/3, and another before tornus.

[5] Alabonia geoffrella is found in Europe, where it is not rare in many woodlands and marshlands.