Wings are translucent, wing fringes are often checkered. Upperside is gray-brown with faint or absent eyespots. Females lay eggs on sedges or in litter around them.
Caterpillars feed at night and pupate under mosses and rocks.
One brood from mid-June to early August. Siberia and the North American arctic from Alaska east to Baffin Island and Labrador. Prevent development or trampling of habitat in New Hampshire. Opler, P. A. and G. O. Krizek. Butterflies east of the Great Plains.