It was described in the genus Crocidophora by Richard South in 1901 based on a single female imago collected in Ningbo in China's Zhejiang province.

[2]: 480  The species is sexually dimorphic, with females exhibiting shorter, less pointed forewings than the males.

[3] The caterpillars feed on leaves of the bamboo species Phyllostachys edulis and P. nigra forma henonis in Japan.

[3] The species was apparently transported via larvae to a large-scale garden centre in Spain, from where it spread further over Europe.

[7] Caterpillars were subsequently reported from Belgium in 2013 and 2015,[8]: 40–41 [9] from the Netherlands in 2014,[10] and from France in 2015,[11] where it is now recorded from the departments of Gironde, Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques.