Tingena innotella

Walker originally described this species as follows:

Male and female. Cinereous. Palpi smooth, slender, curved, much longer than the breadih of the head; third joint setiform, shorter than the second. Antennae of the male very minutely setulose. Hind tibiae slightly fringed. Wings moderately broad. Forewings acute, thickly speckled with brown; a brown dot in the disk beyond the middle in front of a whitish dot; costa straight; exterior border rather oblique. Length of the body 2+1⁄2 — 3 lines; of the wings 8 lines. Hudson described the species as follows:

The expansion of the wings is slightly over 5⁄8 inch. The fore-wings, which are dilated towards the termen, are pale ochreous-brown with darker brown markings; there is a rather broad wavy line from the dorsum at 1⁄3 nearly reaching the first discal dot; the second discal dot is situated at about 2⁄3 and is often connected with the tornus by an oblique line; there is a doubly curved sub-terminal line from the costa before the apex to the tornus. The hind-wings are grey.There is variation in both the depth of ground colour of this species as well as how distinctive the markings on the forewings are.

This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in location such as Whangārei, Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Castle Hill, Dunedin and Invercargill.

Adults of this species are on the wing from December until March. This species has an affinity for the silver tree fern.