This species can be found in central and southern Europe and Asia Minor.

[2][3] These thermophilous moths mainly inhabit coastal environments, warm forest edges, sunny slopes with calcareous soil, scrub and hedgerows where the host plant grows.

The frontwings have some orange dots along the front edge and a distinctive slightly translucent whitish patch in the middle of each wing.

They are yellowish or olive green with a slightly transparent skin and numerous large black verrucae.

The larvae feed on Clematis vitalba,[6] Sambucus nigra, Arctium lappa and are found in July and August.