Range
The skipper is found in Myanmar, Thailand, Western China, Malayasia and the Indonesian archipelago (Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali).
The butterfly occurs in India wherever its preferred forest habitat - moist deciduous, semi-evergreen and secondary evergreen forests with a basically natural, varied herb and shrub vegetation - is present. It ranges from South India through Maharashtra to Bengal, and along the Himalayas from Kashmir to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh (Mishmi hills); and also the Andaman islands. It flies from plains level to 8000 ft in the Himalayas. It inhabits
The type locality of this species is the Himalayas.
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