Common butterfly of all the year round in
all over the island, especially in South. It is a migratory butterfly and Ormiston
has recorded that “It often flights in great numbers and these flights are
usually composed of dwarf specimens” (Ormiston W. 1924). Males sometimes settle
on wet patches on roads to absorb minerals. Its larva feeds on Centrosema plumieri, Senna occidentalis (පැණි තෝර/Coffee Senna/Coffee Weed), Acacia auriculiformis (Earpod wattle), Cajanus cajan (රට තෝර/Dhal/Pigeon Pea/Chick Pea/Red Gram), Canavalia cathartica (මූදු අවර/වල් අවර), Clitoria ternatea (නිල් කටරොළු/Blue butterfly pea/Butterfly bean), Crotalaria micans (Caracas rattle box), Derris scandens (කල වැල්), වල් උඳු (Flemingia macrophylla), Gliricidia sepium (කෝන/Mexican Lilac), Lablab purpureus, Macrotyloma uniflorum, Derris elliptica, Phaseolus vulgaris, Pongamia pinnata (මඟුල් කරඳ/ගල් කරඳ/කරඳ/Indian Beech/Mullikulam Tree), Pterocarpus indicus, Neustanthus phaseoloides, Sesbania grandiflora (කතුරු මුරුංගා/Agati/Vegetable hummongbird), Tephrosia candida, Tephrosia vogelii (Vogel's tephrosia), Vigna radiata (මුං/මුං ඇට/බූ මෑ/Green gram/Jerusalem pea/Mung bean), Vigna unguiculata (මෑ කරල්/ ලී මෑ/වඳුරු මෑ/Black-eye Bean/Cowpea) and Centrosema pubescens (Butterfly-pea).
