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This species is probably the most sexually dimorphic of all our butterflies. Males, shown above, are dark brown with bright orange margins. This butterfly is only found in the Cumberland Plateau and Blue Ridge Mountains in Tennessee and neighboring states and the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

The female Diana Fritillary is black with blue margins on the hindwings and white spotbands on the forewings. This coloration mimics the Pipevine Swallowtail that is distasteful to predators, and this species is just one of several that also mimic the Pipevine Swallowtail.