The Center for Forestry Disease Control In 1903, the British naturalist Swinhoe first recorded the casuarina moth in Taiwan; by 1928 it was damaging Formosan koa (Acacia confusa) plantations in Miaoli County.
林木疫情中心一九○三年，英國生物學家史溫侯在台灣首次記錄到黑角舞蛾，一九二八年，苗栗就出現黑角舞蛾危害人工相思樹林，因此一度被稱為「相思樹毒蛾」。