The male genital valvae are larger than in L. splendens and L. dabrerai and lack a ventral extension.
(76 g, h) now Lycaena splendens (Staudinger, 1881) In this magnificent, very intensely glossy golden butterfly the upperside is very similar in the sexes.
The wings are golden red, dusted with black at the base, the forewing being traversed by one row of submarginal dots and the hindwing by tuw.
The underside is similar to that of dispar rutilus, the ground-colour of the hindwing being yellowish grey.
— Specimens with the hindwing beneath dark bluish grey and the upperside slightly glossy violet are violaceus Stgr., from East Asia (Amurland, Mongolia).