Diagnosis. See the generic account for general features. This species and molybdaenalis are very similar, but albistella is larger, with the hindwings a slightly paler grey, grading darker towards the margin. The bipunctate reniform and the single orbicular are prominently white-centred rather than entirely blackish as in molybdaenalis. The Philippine subspecies trypheropa has a distally yellow abdomen. The Javan subspecies syntypistis is slightly smaller and with a bluish tinge.
Habitat preference. The species has not been taken in recent surveys. Older material is from N. Borneo, with Sandakan on the coast of Sabah and the Segawa [Segama?] river inland being the only precise localities. A specimen from Peninsular Malaysia was from the Telom river, so a riverine habitat is possible.
