OCCURENCE
Habitat: Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
Adults fly rapidly, and only stop briefly to feed on flowers such as Lantana (Waterhouse 1937). Adults have been recorded throughout the year, and the number of generations completed annually is unknown (Braby 2000). Males are often seen flying high above the canopy clearings and females were found to fly along forest edges (Hopkinson 2013).
The native food plant in New Guinea is Xylopia , also of Annonaceae (Parsons 1999).
Females lay eggs singly on the larval food plant, but may return to deposit additional eggs (Hopkinson 2013). Many eggs are parasitised by wasps (Hopkinson 2013). Parasitism of larvae is high (M?ller 1998) and parasitism of both larvae and pupae by tachinid flies is more prevalent during the wet season (Hopkinson 2013). The species may also be naturally controlled by the green tree ant Oecophylla smaragdina which has been seen to occur on most of the food plant species of this butterfly (Hopkinson 2013).
(IUCN 2020)
The estimated extent of occurrence of this species exceeds 4 million km2. Given the paucity of locality data available, area of occupancy cannot be accurately estimated.
(IUCN 2020)
Occurrence and observation maps
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References
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