Common Buckeye

Junonia coenia

"The beautiful and strikingly marked buckeye ... has a white bar across the forewing tip, partially enclosing an eyespot, and the uppermost of the two eyespots on the hindwing above is much larger than the other."

The ventral side looks like this.

Or this.

Photo taken with a Nikon D80, using a 200mm, f/4 micro, manual focus lens.

October 11, 2007.