Outer margin is indented below tip of forewing.
Upperside is black with small white spots and some rusty red near wing bases. Hindwing with median band of cream-colored spots. Several broods, from March-November in south Florida and Arizona, throughout the year in South Texas and the tropics. Deserts, dry gulches, open areas, streamsides, road edges, city parks. Guatemala north through Mexico to southern California, east across the southern United States to northern Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.