Appearance
Frederic Moore described this species on 1865 as: "Upperside purple-brown. Underside greyish brown, exterior margins defined by a brown line: fore wing with a spot within discoidal cell, a discocellular streak, a spot above it, and a transverse discal series of six spots black, each encircled with white; a marginal and submarginal row of pale brown, white-bordered lunules: hind wing with a series of twelve black spots, and a pale discocellular streak, encircled with white; a marginal row of pale brown, whitish-encircled spots, and a submarginal row of whitish lunules: cilia greyish brown."
Food
The recorded food plants include:⤷ "Zornia diphylla"
⤷ "Amaranthus viridis"
⤷ "Amaranthus tricolor"
⤷ "Amaranthus viridis"
⤷ "Melilotus indica"
⤷ "Medicago sativa"
⤷ "Zornia diphylla"
⤷ "Trifolium alexandrinum"
⤷ "Glinus lotoides"
⤷ "Tribulus cistoides"
⤷ "Tribulus terrestris"
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