[1] This species can be found in continental Europe, Russia included, except the south of the Iberian Peninsula and southern Italy, Greece and Great Britain, Denmark and northern Scandinavia.

[1][2] These moths live in the lowlands and in mountainous areas in sunny forest paths and in deciduous forests, at an elevation of 200–1,300 metres (660–4,270 ft) above sea level.

The color of body and forewings is black, with red patches almost always confluent into each other forming two parallel stripes.

They have a light gray-turquoise ground color, with large black spots.

They mainly feed on the leaves of Vicia cracca[1] and Lathyrus vernus.