It was described by William Barnes and Arthur Ward Lindsey in 1921.

The forewings are whitish tawny with scattered brown scales forming a dot in the cell and a dash before the cleft which projects toward a costal spot beyond the base of the cleft.

[3] Adults are on wing in February, August, September and December.

They skeletonize the young leaves of their host plant.

This article on a moth of tribe Oidaematophorini is a stub.