The wings vary from a grayish color to yellow to orange to dark reddish brown, with a variable amount of black spotting and pinkish shading.

The bisected honey locust moth is usually a little bit larger, has a straighter, more conspicuous postmedial line that runs to the costa at the apex, and lacks a white reniform spot.

The older solitary larvae are grass green with two pairs of red horns on the thorax and one on the end of the abdomen.

The very similar-looking Bisected honey locust moth larva has green horns and lacks the red in the supraspiracular stripe.

[4] The honey locust moth has three broods per year, the first adults being grayish, the second yellow to orange brown, and the third being darker with more spotting.