It is found from southern Great Britain, Italy and France, through central Europe north to Scandinavia, east to Russia, from Siberia to the Amur region, Ussuri and Sakhalin, south to northern China, east to Korea and northern Japan.

Forewing rufous grey, dusted with pale grey; stigmata large, pale grey; the cell rufous or red-brown; the claviform obsolete; hindwing greyish ochreous, with diffusely darker border; fringe ochreous.

occurred formerly within a restricted area in the fens of Britain, but is now extinct.

(7 k) which is bluer grey, is found in Sweden, Prussia, Russia and in Amurland.

[1] The larvae feed on Betula nana, Myrica gale, Calluna vulgaris, Vaccinium uliginosum, Andromeda polifolia and Ledum palustre.