It occurs in damp forested places in southern Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, northwestern Kazakhstan, and across the Palearctic to Siberia, Amur, Korea and Japan.

Bright leather-yellow, the female with minute white spots before the apex of the forewing.

Central and distal areas with very regular rows of round black dots.

Underside without silver, a row of elongate white spots with an oily gloss separates on the hindwing the yellow proximal area which has a greenish gloss, from the distal area, which is dusted with pinkish violet.

[1][2] The species produces one generation annually and flies in July–August.