At first, I thought she was a Painted Lady. But when she closed her wings, I saw those big eyes. Oh my. Jeffrey Glassberg is right: To distinguish from the Painted Lady remember, 'American Ladies have big eyes and open mind.' The big eyes refer to the 2 large eye-spots on the HW below. Painted Ladies have 4 smallish eye-spots on the HW below. The open mind refers to the lack of a horizontal 'closing' line connecting the black lines in the lower middle FW above. Most individuals have a white spot on the FW above that Painted Ladies lack."
Oh, lady! You can paint my day orange, white, blue, and brown any day!
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