It is found in Fennoscandia, Denmark as well as the Pyrenees, Alps, Apennines, Balkans and Carpathians.

Fore- wing shining pale or brownish grey; the lines black and very distinct; orbicular and reniform stigmata illdefined, but separated by a quadrate black spot, sometimes placed on a broad median shade; hindwing dull white, towards termen fuscous brown; a widely spread species in Europe, occurring in the Mts.

Italy, Hungary and Scandinavia; the 2 forms thianshanica Stgr.

[now subspecies E. l. hyrcana (Staudinger, 1899)], the former smaller, with whitish grey, less marked, forewings, the latter yellowish grey, both occur only in W. Asia, the former in Turkestan, the latter in Persia.

Larva (teste Ruhl) brownish green, with white lines and dark oblique subdorsal streaks; the head yellow green varied with dark; feeding on Leontodon taraxacum.