This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in the North and South Islands.

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1916 using a male specimen collected at Tisbury, Invercargill by Alfred Philpott.

[4] George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species under this name in his book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.

Forewings narrow - lanceolate; dark bronzy - fuscous sprinkled with blackish; an irregular-edged white streak along dorsum and termen from base nearly to apex; a white mark from costa just before apex : cilia fuscous mixed with white, with a dark-fuscous median line round apex.

[1] Other than the type locality, this species has also been observed in the Wellington, Hawke's Bay, Canterbury and Otago regions.