The larval hosts of this moth are Kunzea ericoides as well as species within the plant genus Leptospermum.

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1881 using four specimens collected in Sydney in December and named Strepsiceros zopherana.

Legs whitish, anterior and middle tibiae and all tarsi sharply banded with dark fuscous.

Forewings very narrow, costa slightly arched, apex produced, hindmargin sinuate, very oblique; dark grey, irrorated with whitish; costa very obliquely strigulated with blackish-grey; a rather broad ill-defined white streak beneath costa from base to apex, crossed by an oblique dark grey fascia-like streak before middle, and three or four slender dark grey very oblique strigulae between that and apex; middle of disc somewhat suffused with, blackish; an ill-defined black spot in disc above anal angle; generally a row of about three ill-defined black spots above anal angle towards hindmargin, preceded and followed by an obscure silvery-metallic line : cilia dark grey, paler towards anal angle, with a blackish apical spot, costal cilia white.

[7][2] The larval hosts of this moth are Kunzea ericoides as well as species within the plant genus Leptospermum.