Forewing below is orange with black spots. Eggs are laid singly on leaves or flowers. Caterpillars rest in shelters of leaves tied together with silk and emerge to feed on leaves and fruits.
Mature caterpillars hibernate in leaf litter.
One brood from May-July. Rocky Mountains from central Colorado south to New Mexico, Arizona and northern Sierra Madre Occidentale of Mexico. G5 - Demonstrably secure globally, though it may be quite rare in parts of its range, especially at the periphery. Butterflies of the Rocky Mountain States. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. 442 pages.