Also the Middle East, Turkey, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and north-west India.

These moths mainly inhabit hot and semi-arid areas of all kinds, including nutrient-poor grasslands, rocky slopes and scrubland.

rubefacta Mab, from Corsica and Sicily, shows the basal and terminal areas of the forewing, dark brown tinged with rose; the brown median shade and its pale edging very prominent; the hindwing dark; — in typical specimens the space between median and outer lines remains pale ochreous or brownish; in several examples, especially females, from Morocco, Spain, and Syria this space is finely dusted with pearl grey, = ab.

[5] The larvae are light brown with reddish shades and longitudinal white lines.

[5] They mainly feed on common Asteraceae such as common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica), ploughman's-spikenard (Inula conyzae),[6] Limbarda crithmoides,[2] Inula viscosa, Centaurea calcitrapa, Helichrysum and Gnaphalium species.