MORPHOLOGY
External characteristics
Male
Wingspan (mm): 62 - 75 (DBpedia, n.d.).
Forewings: The forewing upper side has a black coloured submarginal band (Yata and Morishita, 1979). Hindwings The hindwing underside has a yellow coloured cell end spot (Yata and Morishita, 1979).
Female
The females generally have a different underside wing surface than the males, by being darker with broader margins on both wings (D'Abrera, 1982). The upper side wing surface has a white ground-colour, on the hindwing upper is the marginal series of white spots enlarged side to excavate the black submarginal band in V-shape (Yata and Morishita, 1979).
Subspecies and variation
Two subspecies are described (Pequin, 2021).