Rather common butterfly flies all the year round in open scrublands, forest edges and secondary vegetations throughout the island up to about 1300 m a.s.l. It is much common towards the tail end of both monsoons. Its larva feeds on tender flower buds and flowers of
Urena lobata, flowers and tender leaves of
Lepisanthes tetraphylla in the dry zone and intermediate zone, flowers of
Ziziphus mauritiana in the arid zone and flowers of
Cassia roxburghii at
Nilgala.
