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Sleepy Orange

Abaeis nicippe

Description:

Males patrol flats and gullies for females. Females lay eggs singly under host plant leaves. Caterpillars eat leaves. Dry season form overwinters and lays eggs in spring. Upperside of wings orange in both sexes; orange-yellow form rare. Forewing with small black cell spot. Male with sharply defined black borders on outer and costal margins; female borders not so well-defined. In winter form, underside of hindwing is brick red, brown, or tan; in summer form it is orange-yellow.

Habitat:

Range: Central America north to along the United States-Mexico border; vagrant to non-mountainous parts of the eastern U. S. south of 40 latitude; seen at Mason Farm Biological Preserve

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Maria dB
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Maria dB

North Carolina, USA

Spotted on Apr 27, 2012
Submitted on May 5, 2012

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