[4] In 1987 Klaus Siegfried Oskar Sattler placed this species in the genus Kiwaia.

Legs greyish fuscous, anterior tarsi obscurely annulated with whitish.

Forewings elongate, apex acute, termen very oblique; white, irrorated, especially on costal half, with pale ochreous; some dull ochreous scales on apical half; a blackish fuscous median stripe from base to apex, irregular on margins and sometimes almost interrupted; fringes ochreous white with a few fuscous scales round apex.

[8] As well as the type locality of Yaldhurst, specimens have been collected at Clarence Bridge and Lake Pukaki,[4] as well as on McLeans Island in Christchurch.

[8] This species has the "Nationally Vulnerable" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.