[2] The larvae feed on ash (Fraxinus excelsior), Manchurian ash (Fraxinus mandshurica), privet (Ligustrum species) (including broad-leaf privet (Ligustrum lucidum)) and barberry (Berberis species).

It is found in Europe, China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Beijing, Shandong), South Korea, Japan, Russia (Siberia, Ussuri) and Asia Minor.

[4] Fabricius originally called the moth Pyralis conwagana from a specimen found in Oxford, England.

The genus was raised by the Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus, who formalised binomial nomenclature – the modern system of naming organisms.

Pseudargyrotoza was raised by Nicholas Sergeyevitch Obraztsov in 1954 and refers to; Pseudos – a falsehood; argyrotoza which comes from a synonym of Croesia i.e. argurotoxos – bearer of the silver bow.