It has been observed in the canopy of kanuka forest and has been collected and reared from leaf litter beneath Leucopogon fasciculatus.

This species was described by Alfred Philpott in 1931 using a specimen collected by Charles Edwin Clarke at Okoroire in December and named Carposina marginata.

[2][3] Later in 1931 Edward Meyrick, thinking he was describing a new species, named it Paramorpha heptacentra.

[4][2] This name along with the original combination were synonymised by George Hudson in his 1939 book A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand.

[5] Other than Okoroire, this species has been collected in Albany in Auckland,[7] Whangarei,[5] and at the Poor Knights Islands.