It is found in the Palearctic realm (Europe, Russia, Turkey, Siberia, Russian Far East, Mongolia, China, Korea, and Japan).

Forewing olive grey-brown; inner and outer lines outwards directed, the inner straight, the outer slightly curved, pale yellow; the costal edge also yellow; the median shade obscure; the submarginal line faint, with a dark shade before it; the stigmata with pale margins; hindwing dark grey, with the fringe pale; the ab.

pallida Tutt is a colourless pale grey form without any rufous or fuscous admixture.

[1] The moth flies in one generation from mid-June to mid-September [1].The spherical, yellowish egg is flattened at the base.

It is covered with strong, slightly serrated ribs, about half of which reach the very small, recessed micropyl zone.