It is found in Spain, France, Italy, Sicily, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Greece.

Forewing greyish ochreous, thickly dusted with fuscous or grey, especially the space between outer and submarginal lines; markings obscure; lines marked by dark spots on costa; stigmata faintly yellowish; hindwing greyish fuscous.A south European species, found in Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Carinthia, Bosnia, and Hungary; also in Armenia, Asia Minor, Syria,Persia, Turkestan, and Mongolia: the Asiatic forms differ in coloration from the European; they have been separated by Staudinger as ab.

(13 e),[Dichagyris forficula Eversmann, 1851] which is dark violaceous grey with markings obscure; ab.

[Dichagyris erubescens Staudinger, 1891,in which the ochreous deepens into fulvous or reddish, and the markings become distinct; and ab.

(13 e), which is leaden grey; but erubescens and intermedia may well form a species apart, as Staudinger himself suggested.