[1] It is found from Brazil and Colombia, through Central America (Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras),[2] to the southern United States, where it is found from southern Texas to Florida.
[3] Upperside: antennae filiform (threadlike) and black.
Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow.
Anterior having two round black spots at the shoulders, and two long ones at the tips.
Posterior having a broad black border, beginning at the abdominal corners and running round the wings, crossing the fore wings and ending at the anterior edges.