In the South, it occurs in North Africa, the Middle East (Lebanon, Israel, Jordan), Asia Minor, Iran and Kazakhstan.

The heavily combed antennae of the male and the thick, woolly-hairy body of the female is atypical for Noctuidae.

The reniform and orbicular stigmata are both in the shape of a figure 8 enclosed in yellowish white.

The cilia are greyish brown with a wedge-shaped black tornal mark.

The first instar is light to dark brown and has long bristles on the entire top of the body.

In the last instar, the caterpillar is greenish to bluish and has a series of yellow spots on the back and on the side, which are so close together in some specimens that they result arranged in three longitudinal stripes.

[1] The larvae feed on various deciduous trees and shrubs, mainly Sorbus, Prunus spinosa and Crataegus.