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A medium-size moth (3.1-3.8 cm wingspan) with elongate shining grey and pink forewings. The forewings have an egg-shaped pink basal patch capped with a dark blackish streak. Central areas of the forewings are dark grey-brown, with a prominent silver two-part stigma, comprised of a u-shaped segment and a separate elongate silver spot. The darker central area is continued as a blackish streak running almost to the apex. The terminal area above the streak is pink and grey, as is the area around the anal angle. Hindwings are dull grey-brown with an indistinct pale median band and a moderately checkered fringe. Antennae are simple and the sexes are similar. The only species even remotely resembling this moth is the much larger and differently patterned Euthyatira pudens.

From Nova Scotia west across southern Canada to Vancouver Island; south in the west to southern Oregon and in the east to Iowa, Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina. In Alberta, it has been collected mainly along the southern Boreal Forest, north to the Lac la Biche area and west to Edmonton and in the southern foothills.