This species is endemic to peninsular India, mainly in the Western Ghats.

The head, its snout, the mesothorax, abdomen, and legs are all blue.

The forewing, which is also called the tegmen (plural tegmina) is black with pale veins and yellow unbordered spots.

[1] It differs significantly in pattern, colours and length of the "snout" from Pyrops maculatus and is sometimes treated as a subspecies of P.

Adolphe Delessert who discovered the species in the Nilgiris noted that it tended to be found along riverine forests and that it was hard to capture.