[5] As a result in 1988 Dugdale placed this species in the genus Heterocrossa.

[6] He proposed the new subspecies Heterocrossa philpotti hudsoni in place of Carposina epomiana as described and discussed by Alfred Philpott in 1928.

[7][1] The subspecies H. philpotti hudsoni has been recorded as being observed in Albany, Auckland.

[9] Alan W. Emmerson and Robert J.B. Hoare have hypothesised that there may be two species confused within this name.

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