It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.

[3] P. quadricolor may be easily known by having the basal half of the forewing above bright chestnut- brown and separated from the bright orange-yellow transverse band by an irregularly interrupted line of the black ground-colour.

in breadth, posteriorly indistinct or broken up into spots; median band of the hindwing white.

in breadth, only leaving a very small part of the base of the cellule free; the proximal black boundary of the transverse band is very narrow and the median band of the hindwing above is light yellow in the male, white in the female.

The transverse band of the forewing is even broader than in latifasciata, in the male about 9 mm.

The larvae feed on Adenia cissampeloides, Vitis and Passiflora species See Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]