It is widely distributed in North America east of the Rocky Mountains.

[1][2] It was first described by Danish-American entomologist August Busck in 1907.

[1] The larvae induce globular galls on the petioles of several Populus species.

[1] Mature larvae overwinter in the galls and adults emerge in spring.

This article on a moth of the Ectoedemia genus is a stub.