It is found from Senegal to Somalia, from Angola to Kenya and from Sudan to Egypt.

Both wings above from the base to the apex of the cell black with greenish or bluish reflection, then follows in the male a blue half-band, about 10 mm.

in breadth, running obliquely from the costal margin towards the hinder angle and reaching vein 1; the outer row of spots, which runs almost parallel with the distal margin in the male, is almost identical in the female.

The hindwing has behind the apex of the cell a blue transverse band 12 (male)—15 (female) mm.

[3] See External links for the original description by Arthur Gardiner Butler published in 1866 in The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London.