 James Wood-Mason described this species from the specimens in the collection of G F L Marshall which were collected by Harold S. Ferguson who was director of the State Museum at Trivandrum.Little was known about the species in the wild until a population was discovered in the Periyar Tiger Reserve in 1993.Sightings of both sexes of this butterfly is reported in the southern region of the Western Ghats in 2002 (Kunhikrishnan (2002)).