Forewings with 9 to apex; brownish-ferruginous, slightly whitish-sprinkled; first and second lines dark grey, waved, interrupted, curved near costa; a dark grey discal mark, preceded by a whitish suffusion; a broad terminal band of whitish irroration, including a darker interrupted line, not reaching costa; cilia white, barred with dark ferruginous.

Hindwings purplish-fuscous; two suffused whitish bands; 8 connected with 7, with one or two pseudoneuria.

[3] The moth is found in Austria, Belarus, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Ukraine.

The larva feeds on Vaccinium and Salix and hibernates as a pupa within a cocoon.

The adult emerges in spring, flies at night in summer and lays its eggs in batches.