It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics of China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and the Marianas and Carolines, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Samoa.

Mid tibia of male with large masses of flocculent hair contained in a fold.

Forewings with sub-basal, antemedial, medial, postmedial and sub-marginal indistinct sinuous dark lines.

The area inside the sub-marginal and medial lines is fuscous suffused, or ferrous.

A grey apical patch and a dark spot on sub-marginal line above inner margin found in ochreous forms.