[5][6] The underside exhibits a very characteristic mosaic appearance broadly similar to a number of closely related species, traversed by a jumble of bands, and of reddish, brown, and greyish patches, all edged with a filigree of white.

The outer orange marginal coloration is present on the underside as narrow white-edged lunules, bounded by a grey submarginal band.

Recent detailed re-evaluation found no western locality-depended areas with consistent population phenotypes which could merit infraspecific definition, including in Angola.

[10] The Charaxini taxa harrisoni, saturnalis, and pagenstecheri are now thought to be at least partially fertile hybrid variable phenotypes of (C. saturnus x C. epijasius).

Within a well-populated clade of 27 related species sharing a common ancestor approximately 16 mya during the Miocene,[11] 26 are now considered together as The jasius Group.

[4] One of the two lineages forms a robust clade of seven species sharing a common ancestor approximately 2-3 mya, i.e. during the Pliocene,[11] and are considered as the jasius subgroup.

K. St. A. Rogers[15] After hatching, the larva eats the remaining eggshell, rests for 12hrs, and commences nocturnal habit of devouring leaves on the host plant, non-selective as to age and size of leaf.

Larvae polyphagous on a wide range of hosts including Brachystegia , Hibiscus, Croton sp., Afzelia quanzensis, Bauhinia galpinii, Burkea africana, Schotia brachypetala, the red spike-thorn shrub and tree Gymnosporia senegalensis, Colophospermum mopane, Xanthocerces zambesiaca, Julbernardia globiflora, Xeroderris stuhlmannii, Guibourtia conjugata, Catha edulis.