The caterpillar pupates in a loose reticulated silk cocoon attached to a grass leaf. The pupa is brown, with a spine at the head end, and three spines at the tail.

(Photo: courtesy of Lauri Kaila, Elachistine Moths of Australia, Plate 43, fig. 4)

The adult moths have grey speckled forewings, each crossed by two broken pale bands, and with a similar vague band along the margin. The bands are less distinct in the male. the hindwings are plain grey. The moths have a wingspan of about 0.6 cm.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in

Further reading

Lauri Kaila,
Elachistine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Vol. 11,
CSIRO Publishing, 2011, pp. 17, 21, 38, 53, 58, 217, 244-245, fig. 438, pl. 14, figs, 5-6, pl 43, fig. 4.

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(written 15 July 2022)