Common Mestra
Mestra amymone
Description 1 3/8-1 5/8" (35-41 mm). Small. Wings rounded and slightly scalloped. Grayish above and below near bases and on FW tips and margins; broad golden-yellow HW borders, the rest of HW broadly dusted with pearl-white.
Life Cycle Host plant may be tragia (Tragia).
Flight Successive broods; any month.
Habitat Open brush country.
Range Louisiana and S. Texas south through Central America, emigrating as far north as Nebraska.
Discussion A rather subtly marked, small brush-foot, the Common Mestra becomes quickly worn and may seem rather unimpressive in flight. It occurs regularly in the southern part of Texas and it sometimes flies considerably farther north into the plains states. In certain years, huge emigrations of Common Mestras leave the South, traveling to places hundreds of miles beyond their normal range.
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