Carposina contactella is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand. The wingspan is 15–16 mm. The head and thorax are white and the abdomen is grey-whitish. The forewings are elongate, rather narrow and white with a small blackish mark on the base of the costa, a transverse ochreous-yellow line near the base and a light-grey blotch irrorated (speckled) with dark grey extending along the dorsum and reaching more than half across the wing, containing a yellow-ochreous ridge of scales much marked with black and a yellow-ochreous spot in a white ring, a small blackish spot on the costa, preceded by a black subcostal dot sometimes marked with yellow-ochreous. There are five small spots of blackish irroration on the costa posteriorly, and some suffused grey irroration benea