Little Metalmark

Description:

Photo take at my backyard small metalmark about 2 cm wingspan very similar to the sixola metalmark . The only metalmark of the southeast Atlantic coastal plain. Small. Upperside rusty orange, with fringes dark and not checkered. Underside brighter orange.

Habitat:

Grassy areas of the coastal plain and in open pine woods, savannah, and salt-marsh meadows. Range: Atlantic coastal plain and piedmont from Maryland south to Florida and the Keys; west along the Gulf coast to southeast Texas.