Other species are found along the Himalayas and in Southeast Asia.

It is endemic to the forests of the Western Ghats where it emerges in summer.

[1] The species was described by William Lucas Distant in 1889 based on a specimen obtained from Karwar by E.T.

Atkinson and named after the collector who was also accountant-general of Bengal and a president of the board of trustees of the Indian Museum at Calcutta.

[2] The colourful wing patterns are thought to mimic toxic moths and a possible model suggested is Pangora.