Mesonotum with trace of a narrow bright orange-red patch between nearly touching inner obconical marks.

Underside of head with brownish to purple-pink genae (or cheeks) on each side of frons.

Female pygophore generally with a thick black longitudinal mark on each side of middle dorsally.

North Island: Taranaki, Taupo, Hawke's Bay, Gisborne, Rangitikei, Wellington.

Subalpine scrub vegetation (e.g., Cassinia, Hebe, Phylocladus alpinus, Podocarpus nivalis), sometimes also in the canopy of Nothofagus solandri cliffortioides (central North Island); in scrublands on ridges down to about 100 m elevation (lower North Island); in forest canopy (e.g., Nothofagus, exotic plantations) from tree line to sea level, but rarely in true subalpine environments (South Island).