The moth can be found in the Palearctic realm, up to the Arctic Circle (northern and central Europe, Russia, Russian Far East, Ussuri, Caucasus).

Hmdwing whitish, blackish along anal angle, within this black colour a narrow white marginal line.

Egg moderately convex, miniitely punctate, light green or yellowish green.The larva m two colour-varieties : either glossy light green with whitish dorsum, red-brown transverse bar on the tubercle, orange-yellow longitudinal line below the spiracles and red stigma-spots, or uniformly brown-red.

Pupa dark brown, in the ground in a hard cell lined with silk.

[1] The host plant of the swallow prominent are the poplar, especially the aspen, the willow and the birch.