The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae[1] It is found in Europe and Anatolia then east to Eastern Siberia.

The first and second lines are dark fuscous, nearly straight and parallel.There is a black discal dot and the wing apex is suffused with ochreous-brown.

The cilia are blackish, spotted with white.The hind wings are whitish- ochreous, fuscous -sprinkled and posteriorly brownish -tinged with a faint grey postmedian line and a dark fuscous discal dot.The larva is ochreous-brown, darker marked.

The dorsal line is anteriorly pale, dark-edged, posteriorly dark and interrupted.

There are two blackish dorsal marks on segment 6, preceded by a pale area and pairs of tubercular prominences on 3, 4, and 12.