It is found in North America from Ontario to Nova Scotia, south through the Great Lake states and in the Appalachians to northern Georgia.

[1] There is one generation per year throughout most of the range with a single mid-summer flight from the end of June through early August.

Records from early September in western North Carolina and northern Georgia are indicative of a small second brood.

Adults have been taken at lights and sugar bait from a broad range of habitats that includes bogs, swamps, marshes, Atlantic white cedar swamps, swales, and other wetlands, mesic hardwood and Appalachian cove forests, a variety of boreal (conifer) forest types, and pitch pine/scrub oak barrens.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on dead, browned, lightly moistened leaves of Abies balsamea, Tsuga canadensis, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Hamamelis virginiana and Lonicera morrowii.