Anterior wing broader and not so curved on the costal margin as in Papilio helenus, which it resembles on the upperside.

Posterior wing with a tail more spatulate than in P. Helenus, and tipped with cream colour, marked from the costal margin to the third hranch of the median nervule by a large cream-coloured spot, divided by the nervures into four parts, the lowest much smaller and more lunular than the other three parts.

The posterior wing has at the base of the costa, and between the costal and subcostal nervures, two broad lines of red, the latter nearly twice as long as the former, the large spot as above continued across the wing to the inner margin by a narrow band of lunular spots of same colour; there is a small spot of the same colour at the anal angle, and another at the tip of the tail; the lunular spots between the nervures on the margin are more strongly marked than on the upperside "Exp.

In the Collection of Henley Grose Smith (H. G. S., in Entomologists Monthly Magazine, xix., p. 234 (March, 1883)).

The members of this clade are This species is located in the Indomalayan realm (Sundaland).