It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

The lines are white, internally blackish-edged, the first curved, the second twice sinuate.

The hindwings are light grey, darker posteriorly with a cloudy pale or whitish median line, anteriorly edged with dark grey.

In pale specimens there is an irregular dark dorsal band; subdorsal series of brown-red spots, sometimes separated by whitish ochreous spots.

This article on a moth of the family Lasiocampidae is a stub.