Chloroclystis nereis

Meyrick described this species as follows:

Male, female. — 15-21 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen grey sprinkled with blackish-grey and whitish, sides of thorax and base of abdomen (in fresh specimens) tinged with blue-greenish; palpi 2. Antennae whitish annulated with black, ciliations in male 1⁄2. Legs blackish, middle and posterior pair irrorated with whitish, apex of all joints whitish. Forewings with hindmargin bowed, oblique, slightly sinuate above anal angle; light grey, suffused with light blue-greenish (in fresh specimens); numerous curved waved darker grey or blackish-grey lines, alternating with a partial irregular white irroration; anterior edge of median band from 1⁄3 of costa to 1⁄3 of inner margin, curved; posterior edge from 2⁄3 of costa to 2⁄3 of inner margin, sinuate inwards beneath costa, and above and below middle; median band towards margins, and a hindmarginal band interrupted beneath costa, obscurely suffused with darker grey, especially near costa; a grey discal spot, sometimes obsolete; an interrupted blackish hindmarginal line : cilia whitish, barred with grey, and with an obscure grey line, bars darker on basal half. …

The favoured habitat of this species consists of mountainous areas. The larvae feed inside the flower heads of Celmisia lindsayi. Adult moths have been shown to pollinate Celmisia discolor, Celmisia gracilenta and Helichrysum selago.

C. nereis is day flying. Adults are on wing in January and February.

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