It inhabits a wide variety of habitats including native forest and scrubland, gardens, parks, subalpine and coastal areas.

This species was first described by Achille Guenée in 1868 using a specimen collected in Christchurch by Richard William Fereday and named Larentia corcularia.

[5] This was followed by subsequent authors, including George Hudson in his 1928 publication, until Craw pointed out that the genitalia of both male and female specimens of H. corcularia were distinctly differently shaped from H.

[1] Guenée described this species as follows: It has some relationship with our salicata, of which it has scarcely the size, but almost the colour.

[3]This species is distinguishable from H. semisignata as it is a slightly larger moth and there are distinct differences when the genitalia of a specimen is examined.

[8][4] This species inhabits a wide variety of habitats including native forest, scrubland, gardens, parks, coastal areas and subalpine herbfields.