Male
(Specimen: courtesy of The Australian Museum)

The upper surfaces of the wings of the male butterflies are white.

Female
(Specimen: courtesy of The Australian Museum)

The females have white wings with black edges. The black apical area of the fore wings contains white spots.

The undersides of the fore wings are like the upper surfaces, but the undersides of the hind wings are yellow. The wingspan is about 5 cms.

The species occurs from India to New Guinea, but only around Darwin and on the Cape York Peninsula in northern Australia.

Further reading :

Michael F. Braby,
Butterflies of Australia, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 2000, vol. 1, p. 328.

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(updated 1 January 2012)