The species can be found throughout central, eastern and southern Africa, including the islands of the Indian Ocean, Yemen, Chagos islands, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, southern China,[1] in Hawaii, Hong Kong, New Zealand, the Society Islands, Sulawesi, as well as Queensland in Australia.

Head and thorax clothed with dark ferrugineous and white hair.

Abdomen paler with ferrous colored dorsal tufts.

Ventral side of hindwings with more crenulated postmedial line.

[2][3] The larvae feed on Adiantum, Lygodium, Pellaea, Nephrolepis biserrata, and Asplenium nidus.