In the northern part of its range, the females give birth to one set of eggs in June.

In the southern range, the females have two sets of eggs, "one in May to June and one in late July to September".

[3] Isolated populations of the species can be found by the East Coast of the United States, "from southern New Jersey and south to Georgia".

[3] The butterfly is known to only live on a marsh alongside the Chickahominy River in Virginia and its habitat has been threatened by housing and recreational development.

A larva and a raised male were placed in the Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History.