Green-Toothed Owlet

Hampson first described this species as follows:

♀. Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with purple-grey especially on patagia, the tegulae with black line near tips; abdomen rufous. Fore wing bright rufous mixed with purple-grey and some olive-green; subbasal line double, black filled in with purple, dentate, bent inwards to base at vein 1, an oblique white striga beyond it across the cell and an olive-green patch above vein 1; antemedial line black defined on inner side by purple, slightly angled outwards below costa and excurved below the cell; claviform large, defined by black and white above and at extremity; orbicular and reniform large, with brown and green centres and white annuli defined by black, the former rather oblique elliptical, the latter with curved whitish striga in centre; postmedial line black defined on outer side by purple, double at costa, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 3, some whitish points beyond it on costa; sub-terminal line white with olive-green suffusion before it except towards costa and inner margin and defined on outer side by black, incurved below costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen at veins 4 and 3; a fine waved black terminal line. …

This species is endemic to New Zealand. This species is found throughout the North, South and Stewart Islands of New Zealand.

The life history of this species is unknown as are the host species of its larvae.

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