It is found in the Palearctic realm, from western Europe to the Ural Mountains, Transcaucasia, Asia Minor, the Near East, Iran, Russia (Siberia, Central Asia, Cisbaikal, Tuva, the Russian Far East), north-eastern China (Manchuria), Korea and Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu).

The palpi are porrected, the second joint broadly scaled, terminal very short.

The forewings with the costa less arched than in Celypha doubledayana (Barrett, 1872) and the termen more oblique.

An oblique praetornal spot, and triangular terminal patch are both ochreous or ferruginous, mixed with black or dark fuscous.

[3] The moth flies from late May to September in western Europe.