Males can be found in two's and three's flying around favoured trees, usually on hilltops or ridges. They often perch on narrow branches, in a head downward posture, with their wings half open; or sometimes on foliage, to await passing females.

Males frequently intrude into each other's territory, and when this happens an aerial skirmish takes place, during which both butterflies make a long series of clearly audible clicking sounds. This is presumably their way of shouting "go away".

To my knowledge the only other species which behave in a similar manner are the Hamadryas Cracker butterflies of Central and South America. In Hamadryas the sound is produced as the butterflies take off, and is made by twanging a pair of spiny rods at the tip of the abdomen against bristles on the valvae ( the male's anal claspers ). Only males can produce the sound, but both sexes can detect it - their wings have tiny hollow cells covered in membranes which vibrate in response to sound and stimulate nerve endings. The purpose of the sound is not fully understood : it may deter competing males from occupying the same territory, and may also act as a trigger to initiate the first response from a female during courtship.