[2] Over the past 150 years, the use of various alternatives for the generic name of C. pariana and other species of Choreutis has led to taxonomic confusion.

Older literature can be found using generic names like Eutromula, Hemerophila, Orchemia, or Simaethis, all of which have later either been clarified as completely separate genera or work as synonyms for one or more species.

[4] Larvae have been found on crab apples, hawthorns, paper birches, Betula dahurica,[2] willows, cherries, whitebeams, ashes, roses and alders.

In Western Europe, the moth flies in two generations, with adults on wing in July and again in September when they overwinter, and may appear again in early spring.

[4][5] It is frequently collected in agricultural areas in North America where it is found along the West Coast of the United States and in British Columbia, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador.