 It was recorded from China in 2009.Occasionally abundant, often in conjunction with epidemics of the spruce budworm, the spruce coneworm ("Dioryctria reniculelloides" Mutuura & Munroe) occurs through most or all of the range of spruce in North America, feeding on new foliage and cones of spruce, and often balsam fir (Ives and Wong 1988).When abundant, it can be a serious pest "particularly on white spruce" (Hedlin et al.