MORPHOLOGY
External characteristics
Male
Wingspan (mm): 83 (Grose Smith And Kirby, 1892).
Forewings: The forewing underside has stripes toward the apex and along the termen sharply defined and bright orange yellow akin to the colour of the hindwing underside. The forewing underside is blackened. The plume scale is short (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).
Subspecies and variation
No subspecies (Pequin, 2021; Yata and Morishita, 1979).