It is an uncommon species found in localised areas around Sydney and northern New South Wales and into southern Queensland.

It inhabits dry sclerophyll forest and open woodland on sandstone soils.

The female is golden orange with blackish margins on the upperside and more brownish on the underside.

The larvae feed upon various species in the mistletoe family, including Amyema miquelii, A. linophylla, A. quandang, Dendrophthoe glabrescens, D. vitellina and Muellerina eucalyptoides.

As with many Lycaenidae, sugar ants attend the larvae, in this case the species Froggatella kirbii.