Heterocrossa contactella

Meyrick described the species as follows:

♀︎. 14–15 mm. Head white. Palpi 2+1⁄2, white, lower longitudinal half blackish. Antennas white, obscurely ringed with fuscous. Thorax whitish-ochreous mixed with dark grey, collar and patagia white. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Fore-wings elongate, narrow, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen very oblique, almost straight, rounded beneath; grey, irregularly irrorated with dark grey and white; a broad irregular-edged white suffusion extending along anterior half of costa, and reaching 2⁄3 across wing; three or four small black dots on costa anteriorly, second forming a short strigula; a narrow oblique-transverse pale ochreous spot edged with black below middle at 1⁄3; a black dot above middle of disc, and a small pale ochreous sometimes blackish-mixed spot below it; three small faint whitish-ochreous spots arranged in a triangle in disc beyond middle; all these ochreous spots are ringed with white suffusion; an undefined angulated dark subterminal shade, marked with black on veins; a series of blackish dots on posterior half of costa and termen : cilia light grey irrorated with white, basal half obscurely barred with whitish. Hind-wings grey, paler anteriorly; cilia whitish.

This species is endemic to New Zealand. This species can be found in both the North and South Islands and has been observed in the Auckland region, Whanganui River, Paekākāriki, Wellington, Ōtira River, Ida Valley, Queenstown, Invercargill and Bluff. Hudson regarded it as uncommon.