This species is present in most of Europe[2] and it is widely distributed throughout the Palaearctic region, northwards to the Arctic Circle.

It is an introduced species in North America,[3] where it is found from Maine and Quebec to Florida, west to Ontario and Missouri.

These moths mainly inhabit fields, roadsides and waste places.

[5][6] Adults are on wing in June and July in the north of North America and from April to August in the south.

This article on a moth of the subfamily Anomologinae is a stub.