Oops: Painted Lady

This was an original post that turned out to be wrong. This butterfly was not in the Texas butterfly identification book I had, so I made an educated guess... a stab in the dark if you may. The only problem is I got it wrong.

See the Sunday, October 11th 2009 post for the correct identification, but here's a mildly altered post that describes the Painted Lady butterflies.

I'm pretty sure it's a type of Painted Lady butterfly. The only problem is that it has too many spots (aka eyes).
I know it's a butterfly. Two sets of wings usually held together when at rest, six legs, bright colors, and the easiest giveaway: antenna like a car - straight with bulbous ends.
A Painted Lady looks thus: the forewing tops are tipped with black with small white spots on it, pretty much the rest of the wings are orange except for the eyes. The top side of the wings have black spots where the eyes are, but on the bottom sides (which are visible when the wings are held together) have the eyes.
The "eyes" are blue dots surrounded by a thick ring of black surrounded by a thinner ring of orange surrounded by an even thinner ring of brown. The problem is depending on the type Painted Ladies have between 2-4 eyes, so while you may know generally you might not specifically. The rest of the bottom side of the wing is marbled in browns with white spots.
Painted Ladies have fuzzy bodies that are near to impossible to tell where the head, thorax, and abdomen end and begin. They also have those large, fishy looking eyes.

One helpful thing is that painted ladies are very bright, they've earned their name. They're not as common in Texas, though, since Texas is right at the edges of most of the variety's ranges.