Glyphipterix acronoma

Meyrick described this species as follows:

Male, female. — 10-11 mm. Head and thorax deep greyish-bronze, thorax with a small posterior white spot. Palpi white, second joint with four black bands, terminal joint black in front. Antennae and abdomen dark fuscous. Legs dark fuscous, ringed with whitish. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin sinuate, oblique; rather deep greyish-bronze, posterior half mixed with light bronzy-ochreous; an ochreous-white oblique streak from costa at 1⁄3, broadest in middle, apex acute, reaching half across wing; a slender white slightly curved fascia from middle of costa to inner margin beyond middle, sometimes indistinct in disc, forming a small spot on inner margin; a silvery-blue-metallic slightly curved slender fascia from 2⁄3 of costa to 3⁄4 of inner margin, becoming white at extremities; three short silvery-blue-metallic streaks from costa between this and apex, forming white dots on costa, last margining a round black apical spot; a subtriangular black anal patch, containing four round violet-golden-metallic spots : cilia grey, with a blackish line near base, interrupted by a triangular white indentation above middle. …

G. acronoma is endemic to New Zealand. As well as the type locality of Mount Arthur, this species has been found at Waimarino and Gollan's Valley in Wellington both in the North Island, as well as in Fiordland, near the Mararoa River in Southland, and in the Queenstown Lakes District, all in the South Island.