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Pyrisitia dina
Family: Pieridae Subfamily: Coliadinae Identification: Male orange-yellow with very narrow black border on outer and costal margins of forewing. Female yellow with black at forewing tip. Underside of both sexes with three black spots on hindwing. Wet-season (summer) form paler colored. Wing Span: 1 1/4 - 2 1/4 inches (3.2 - 5.7 cm).
Forest edges, brushy fields, open forest. In fact these were hanging around in the hottest and sunniests parts of dirtroads in Yucatan.
The description is from: http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/speci...
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Karen, I changed the ID to Pyrisitia sina, which is mentioned as Yucatan species in a web site I used to ID the butterflies. But it might as well be proserpia..I leave it up to experts to figure it out :-)
Spotted on Sep 11, 2011
Submitted on Sep 21, 2011
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