Appearance
For a key to the terms used, see :Glossary of Lepidopteran terms.The Indian Awlking is 50 to 60 mm long. It is distinguished by the shining green under hindwing with black veins, orange area with black spots on the tornus.
The male butterfly is shining indigo-blue above. It has purplish hairs at the base which turn greenish with age. Cilia of hindwing and anal lobe broadly ochreous-red.
The female butterfly is dark shining green with bluish-gray hairs at the base. forewing with a broad pale cupreous brown band on posterior margin ; hindwing with a broad ochreous-red lobular patch with black macular upper border and broad central angular streak.
Thorax greyish olive above, vertex bluish olive, abdomen brown ; palpi and thorax in front and abdomen beneath, ochreous-red.
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