The orange oakleaf is encountered up to an altitude of in the hills; though Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth records it as being encountered up to in regions of heavy rainfall in thickly forested mountainous and hilly regions. In the Kumaon Himalayas, K. inachus has been recorded to inhabit tropical deciduous forest between and subtropical evergreen forest above . In a survey of Chongqing municipality, China carried out from 1998 to 2004, K. inachis was found to inhabit moist broad-leaf forests.