"This butterfly is bright orange above with black border ... Seen well, note ... the characteristic diagonal brown markings on the HW below. This species has 2 color forms and the HW ground color below can be either yellow or a cull reddish color." (Jeffrey Glassberg, Butterflies through Binoculars: The East., p. 64)

This individual is the "dry season (winter) form".

Picture taken with a Nikon D90, using a Nikon 300mm, f/4.5 lens.

January 20, 2017