[1][2] This species was first described by Paul Dognin in 1911 and originally named Paranerita phaeocrota.

[3] George Francis Hampson described this species in 1920 in his Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum.

[4] The male type specimen, collected in French Guiana at Saint Jean du Maroni, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.

Fore wing purplish brown to the costa before middle and thence to termen at submedian fold, the outer edge of this area angled at lower angle of cell, then sinuous: the apical half of wing pale semihyaline yellow with a large round purple-brown subapical patch with some crimson above it on costa and slightly sinuous outer edge.

Hind wing yellowish, the inner half suffused with crimson ami with large triangular brownish patch from termen to below end of cell.