It is found in almost all of Europe (except Croatia),[1] as well as most of Russia, Kazakhstan,[2] Central Asia and North Africa.

[3] The habitat consists of dry, rocky heath and meadows and the verges and rough pastures.

Forewings are brown, usually mixed with dark fuscous; usually indistinct dark fuscous spots on costa near base, at 1/4, and beyond middle, and in disc near base and at 1/4; stigmata black, often partly edged with whitish, first discal beyond plical; an indistinct pale ferruginous-tinged angulated fascia at 3/4, sometimes almost obsolete.

[4][5][6][7] Adults have been recorded on wing from early June to October in two generations per year in western Europe.

[8] The larvae feed within the roots[9] of Genista and Thymus species, as well as Artemisia campestris.