Sri Lankan Tiger is an endemic butterfly Occurs above 1000 m elevation and common above 1200 m
though occasionally found as low as 800 m elevation. It inhabits forests and well wooded hill country home
gardens. Larva feeds on Ceropegia elegans, Cynanchum alatum and Vincetoxicum iphisia. Larva also fed on Vincetoxicum bracteatum when offered in the lab and egg laying was observed on Vincetoxicum cordifolium.
