(Specimen: courtesy of the The Australian Museum)

The upper surfaces of the wings of the adult butterfly are white with black tips to the forewings. The undersides are white with grey forewing tips, and a pale yellow suffusion toward the base of each forewing. The butterfly has a wingspan of about 4 cms.

underside
(Specimen: courtesy of the The Australian Museum)

The species is found in the tropical north of Australia in

There it breeds in the coastal rainforest adjacent to Melaleuca swamps between Ingham and Mackay. This habitat is seriously threatened, so this species is also under threat.

Further reading :

Michael F. Braby,
Butterflies of Australia, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 2000, vol. 1, pp. 318-319.

William Henry Miskin,
Note on some undescribed Australian Lepiodoptera (Rhopalocera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 6, Part 5 (1889), p. 263.

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(updated 1 January 2012, 29 December 2023)