Rusty-tipped Page

Siproeta epaphus · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Nymphalidae

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Rusty-tipped Page
Photo: unknown, CC0

The rusty-tipped page has large wings about 7 cm long, with black on the inner top surface and brown underneath. A bold white stripe runs across both wings, and the outer forewing edge is rusty orange in the main subspecies.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Both wing surfaces show a prominent white transverse stripe. The outer part of the forewing is rusty orange in the widespread subspecies, while other subspecies are mostly black there.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It lives year-round in tropical habitats throughout the New World.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 2 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Texas, New Mexico.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America. Source: iNaturalist

More photos

Rusty-tipped Page photo 3
Photo: alessandradalia, CC BY-SA
Rusty-tipped Page photo 4
Photo: John Rosford, CC BY

Same family (Nymphalidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siproeta_epaphus

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-22 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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