This species can be found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Bénin, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.

[3] The habitats of this species mainly consists of dry forests and savannah, but it also prefers clearings and open areas in the rainforest.

These butterflies are closely mimicked by Pseudacraea boisduvali and by Graphium ridleyanus in the shade of color, in the cut of the wings and in the pattern of markings.

Fore wing beneath almost as above, but lighter and more thinly scaled; hind wing beneath light reddish with red spots at the base and at the marginal band and between the large, free black dots more or less greenish yellow; marginal spots large, quadrate, greenish yellow; collar red; last half of the abdomen light yellow.

In the female the ground-colour of both wings is black grey without red-yellow spots, but with an indefinite whitish subapical band on the forewing.