It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.

The female is much larger and has a white apical spot on the forewing and a very broad dark brown or blackish marginal band on the hindwing.

differs in having the hindwing and the hindmargin of the forewing violet-brown above, with a light blue or violet-blue median band about 7 mm.

albula Thurau has in both sexes a white subapical band on the upperside of the forewing and the under surface is clay-yellow; in the female the upperside is chocolate-brown with violet reflection; the hindmarginal area of the forewing as far as vein 2 and the median area of the hindwing are bluish violet .

As fraudata Thurau describes a male from Uganda as follows: - The subapical band of the forewing is strikingly narrow, at the costal margin only about 2 mm.