Although not classified under the New Zealand Threat Classification system, this species is regarded as rare.

[4] In 1987 Robin C. Craw, after considering its genital structure, proposed assigning this species to the genus Asaphodes.

[2] The male holotype specimen, collected at Eweburn Stream, Mount Ida, is held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Forewings elongate-triangular, costa outwardly rounded, apex bluntly pointed, termen slightly sinuate, oblique; brown-ocherous with admixture of reddish, lines white; an irregular wide transverse band at 1⁄4, outwardly convex in middle, slightly reddish with narrow white edges on either side; at 3⁄4 a transverse dentate white line with largest dentations outwardly about middle; reddish beyond this and then darkening into brown-ochreous towards termen; a blackish discal dot; subterminal line dentate, white, inwardly edged with dark brown: cilia dark fuscous.

[3] A. ida frequents upland or alpine wetland habitat at between 800 and 1,100 meters in altitude.