It is also found from Morocco to Asia Minor.The species prefers heaths, bushy slopes and rocky valleys which favour its foodplants.

The egg is rather small, oval, slightly broadened and deepened at the micropylar end; the surface faintly pitted.

The larva is closely similar to that of legatella but the subdorsal line is edged with darker green and the spiracles are black.

The larvae feed at night and are then rather conspicuous, as they have a habit of stretching out from the plant at full length.

However, a second generation may occur with adults on wing from June to August and the moth is very erratic in its time of emerging which — at least in some seasons and in some localities.