Forewing is long and pointed, hindwing is lobed. Upperside is brown-black with large translucent spots on both forewing and hindwing. Females lay eggs on the upperside of leaves high up on the host plant.
Caterpillars usually spend the day in shelters of rolled leaves and emerge after dark to eat leaves.
In Costa Rica, nectar from large white or pale yellow flowers of woody lianas, trees, and shrubs. Periodically strays and colonizes north to southern Nevada, north Texas, Illinois, and Massachusetts. G5 - Demonstrably secure globally, though it may be quite rare in parts of its range, especially at the periphery. Bailowitz, R. A., and J. P. Brock. Butterflies of southeastern Arizona.