(Specimen: courtesy of The Australian Museum)
The upper surfaces of the fore wings of the adult butterflies are grey fading to white toward the margins, with a black apex containing white spots. The hind wings have irregular black margins fading to white at the bases.
underside
(Specimen: courtesy of The Australian Museum)
The undersides of the fore wings are grey, black, white and yellow. The undersides of the hind wings are dark grey-brown, each with a dark band. The butterflies have a wingspan of about 5 cms.
The species occurs only around Cairns in northern Queensland, Australia.
Further reading :
Michael F. Braby,
Butterflies of Australia,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 2000, vol. 1, pp. 326-327.
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