It is found in Europe including the Iberian Peninsula and southern Fennoscandia and south to North Africa.

In an easterly direction, the species occurs across the Palearctic to the Pacific Ocean and Japan.

Forewing triangular, the apex rectangular, the termen curved; veins 7, 8, 9 stalked.

Forewing straw yellow, becoming deeper terminally; with a black-brown reniform stigma containing two black dots; inner and outer lines brownish, obscure, the outer sinuous, excurved round the cell; hindwing luteous (mud coloured) with a yellow tinge, darker terminally.

Larva green; dorsal line darker; subdorsal white; head greenish ochreous.