It is found in Europe, western and central Siberia, Altai, Transbaikalia, the Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula, Japan and in North America, where it can be found across Canada from Newfoundland and Labrador to British Columbia, south in the west to California, south in the east to Georgia.

English specimens and (according to Herz) the Korean form are on an average rather less white, than those from Scotland and continental Europe.

latefasciata Strand has the median area very broad, the lines which bound it are parallel, not approximated in the posterior part.

bradyi; forewing suffused with smoke-colour but remaining longitudinally rayed with white in the distal area, hindwing not infuscated.

Other recorded food plants include alder, apple, birch, mountain ash, serviceberry and willow.