Appearance
The wingspan is about 90-120 mm. Palpi with third joint long and spatulate at extremity. Fore wings with produced apex to a rounded lobe. Head and thorax ferrous colored, with plum-color suffusion. Abdomen orange. Fore wing ferrous with dark stria and slight purple bloom. The veins speckled with blue. Reniform green and indistinct. There is a dark line runs from apex to center of inner margin, sometimes with green patches beyond it. Hind wings orange with a large black lunule beyond lower angle of cell. A submarginal patch can be seen between veins 1 and 2. Ventral side orange. Fore wings with black mark below angle of cell and beyond the cell between veins 3 and 5. Hind wings with lunule and patch of upperside.
Habitat
Larva has pinkish grey dorsal surface suffused darker to a V-shaped yellow band. It has black spiracles and marbled white-ringed rufous-orange ocellate marks with three ferrous lines crossing them. The larvae feed on ''Cocculus'' species. The adults are a pest on various fruits. They pierce the fruit in order to suck the juice.Adults and caterpillars both harm fruits, by piercing, sucking juice and eating flesh. Fruits may show pre-mature fall due to the attack. Parasitoids such as ''Telenomus lucullus'' and ''Euplectrus melanocephalus'' used as controlling measures.
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