In Madeira, the last migration of this art was recorded by Wind Birds on 13 November 2012 with at least 3 males and they were in a very dry coastal area. They were put for a few weeks in the same area.

Migrations have been seen on Madeira, Ilhéu Chão, the Azores, the Canary Islands and Cape Verde.

Hypolimnas misippus had temporarily established populations in the Canary Islands in the 1980s, see (Wiemers, M. 1995), but there are currently no populations. Therefore it was excluded from the European Red List 2009."

Danish name: Mimik.

Description: Males are blackish with distinctive white spots that are fringed in blueDescription: There are two female forms, one with blue and the other with an ochreous ground-colour.

Habitats: consists of secondary forests and disturbed environments.

Behavior: Adult males mud-puddle. Both sexes feed from teak flowers.

Foodplant: The larvae feed on Urera hypselodendron, U. trinervis and Fleurya species.

Distribution: is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, the DRC, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.

Danish name: Blå Diadem.

Mimicry; To the west the female is monomorphic, mimicking species of the oriental and Australasian danaid genus Euploea.
Eastwards H. bolina is frequently polymorphic and most forms are then non-mimetic.
In areas where it resembles Euploea the butterfly has usually been designated a Batesian mimic.

Habitats: is a generally common butterfly across most tropical and sub-tropical habitat types, including wet/dry woodland (such as tropical savanna), rainforest and shrubland. It is a common visitor to suburban back yards and other areas of human disturbance. In the Australian tropics, H. bolina is particularly common along tracks, streambeds, and the corridors formed between remnant gallery forest and cultivated sugar cane fields.

Behavior: Males are notably territorial. Individuals are known to return to defend the same location for up to 54 days, with site fidelity increasing with age. Territories that enhance the visual detection of adult females are preferred.
Unlike congenerics such as Hypolimnas anomala, female H. bolina most often lay one or two eggs at a time. These are typically laid on the leaf underside. Early season (post-diapause) females in the Australian wet-dry tropics target freshly-germinated seedlings of their favoured host in this region, Synedrella nodiflora.

Foodplant: Race bolina breeds on Sida rhombifolia, Elatostemma cuneatum, Portulaca oleracea, Laportea interrupta, Triumfetta pentandra and Asystasia species.

Distribution: is found in Madagascar in the west, through to South and Southeast Asia, Cambodia, the South Pacific islands (French Polynesia, Tonga, Tuvalu, Samoa and Vanuatu), and occurs in parts of Australia, Japan, and New Zealand. Appearances in New Zealand appear to be linked with favourable winds during April–June migratory periods in Australia, with the butterfly being recorded in 1956, 1971 and 1995. No populations have established locally in New Zealand.

Danish name: Stor Diadem.