Dasyuris strategica

Meyrick described this species as follows:

Female.—35 mm. Forewings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; dark fuscous, thinly irrorated with yellowish; a slender straight oblique white fascia towards base ; a narrow somewhat irregular slightly curved white fascia before middle; a narrow whitish median fascia, broadly suffused with yellowish, bent above middle ; a rather narrow well-defined white fascia beyond middle, sharply angulated in disc; a sharply dentate white subterminal line; cilia barred with white and dark fuscous. Hindwings moderate, hindmargin rounded ; dark fuscous, base irrorated with yellowish ; a somewhat sinuate whitish fascia suffused with yellowish before middle; a white strongly angulated fascia beyond middle ; subterminal line and cilia as in forewings. Hindwings beneath suffused with golden-yellow. Hudson described this species as follows:

The expansion of the wings is 1+3⁄8 inches. The fore-wings are dull yellowish-grey, becoming blackish along the edges of the transverse lines which are cream-coloured; there are two narrow bands near the base, the first outwardly oblique towards the dorsum, the second slightly curved; a dull orange shading in the centre of the median band, followed by a broad cream-coloured band very strongly angulated above the middle; there is a very wavy subterminal line. …

This species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs in the northern half of the South Island.