Its thorax is black on dorsum with a narrow blue mid-dorsal and broad ante-humeral stripes.

The lower edge of the black is like a saw-tooth, followed by azure blue on the base of the lateral sides.

Abdomen is azure blue on the sides, broadly black on dorsum up to the basal half of segment 9.

Indolestes gracilis davenporti is found south of the Palakkad Gap, from 4,000 to 6,000 feet in Western Ghats.

[8][9][10][11] Indolestes gracilis expressior is found from 1600 to 4500 feet in evergreen forest in eastern Cambodia.