It is found from England and Scandinavia to the Mediterranean Sea, to eastern Russia, China (Jilin, Shaanxi), Korea, Burma and Japan.

The forewings are yellow-whitish striated with fuscous.The costa is strigulated with dark fuscous.

The edge of the basal patch is angulated in the middle' An irregular central fascia, and the apical area are fuscous irrorated with pale yellowish, with a few blackish marks.A slender blackish longitudinal streak crosses the middle of the fascia and curves upwards above the ocellus to near termen .

Larvae feed in a folded leaf or a spun shoot of the host plant.

The synonym Steganoptycha signatana as incorrectly used by Walsingham, refers to Crocidosema plebejana.