"The phaon crescent looks much like the pearl crescent, with which it often shares its habitats; however, it can be identified by the pale cream band across the forewing. The pearl crescent is orange above with black markings. The phaon crescent has a broad black band across the middle of the forewing above, followed outwardly by the cream colored band and then an orange one."

This is its ventral side.

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

Sepember 25, 2010.