Dasyuris micropolis

Meyrick described this species as follows:

♂ ♀. 16-19 mm. Head, palpi black, ♀ mixed white. Thorax black, hairs somewhat mixed yellow-whitish, especially in ♀, front and tegulae ♂ sprinkled white scales. Abdomen black, segmental margins more or less irrorated white, more strongly beneath. Forewings triangular, termen rounded, rather oblique; dark fuscous, slightly and irregularly sprinkled whitish; subbasal, first, median, second, and subterminal white or whitish lines or slender streaks, first two rather curved, median somewhat irregular or slightly angulated in middle, second more or less obtusely angulated in middle, subterminal irregular, usually macular or sometimes almost obsolete: cilia white barred grey. Hindwings dark grey; a somewhat obtusely angulated whitish or yellow-whitish postmedian line; in ♀ also an oblique yellow-whitish antemedian shade or streak, and macular subterminal line; cilia white, indistinctly barred grey. Forewings beneath dark fuscous with five yellowish-white fasciae, first two broad and confluent, occupying basal ⅖ of wing, third moderate, straight or rather angulated, fourth moderate, angulated, fifth narrow, mostly macular. …

D. micropolis is endemic to New Zealand and have been observed in the South Island.