Hobart's Red Gliders are medium large to large butterflies.
   They are known commonly as gliders. 
   The genus is distributed in the Afrotropical realm, where species are found mainly in forest habitat. primarily in the Guinean forests of West Africa and the Congolian forests.
      Adults spend most of their time in the canopy but are also known to seek out sunlit spots between the trees.
   Males mud puddle and both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit.
   Cymothoe hobarti exhibit sexual dimorphism.           Individuals can also be variable within a species, especially females. The females are so variable that authorities have described 20 different forms of the species based on their differences.
   
* As members of the Brush Footed (Nymphalidae) family, they use their shorter pair of front legs for food tasting, and their two pairs of longer rear legs for propulsion.