It is largely cosmopolitan, found throughout Borneo, Fiji, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, São Tomé and Príncipe, Taiwan, Thailand, Zimbabwe, northern Australia, and almost all African countries.

[5] This re-classification has not yet met with general consensus, and many resources and publications still follow the older classification scheme.

Forewings with a large black white-edged triangular patch easily distinguished below the cell from near base to towards outer angle.

The yellow part is broken by longitudinal brown bands, which faints towards posterior and becomes intensive again in prolegs.

[8] The larvae feed on Chrysopogon, Eleusine Glycine, Indigofera, Kummerovia, Medicago, Phaseolus, Rhynchosia and Nephelium species.