Gillmeria pallidactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae first described by the English entomologist, Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1811.

[1] The frontal tuft and palpi are very long The posterior tibiae below the middle -spurs are wholly light brown.

The costal edge is dark fuscous; a darker triangular suffusion on costa beyond middle apex forms a darker dot, and this is followed by a whitish costal spot and an ochreous-whitish subterminal line.The apical 2/3 of the terminal cilia is white.

The larva is green with the dorsal line darker or somewhat brownish-tinged; subdorsal and lateral grey-whitish.

In the spring they feed on a succession of shoots causing them to wilt.