It has orange-brown with wavy lines running across. Seeing that, I tried to take a distance shot as a way to not distract it with my approach.

Around me I have tried couple of times to capture such kind of butterfly but undone because I tried to get close that is not the strategy which I have learnt from your post.
When we have zoom lens then we can capture from distance that should be the great idea of capturing this beauty because it is quick flying with the presence of any presence. Thanks and nice photography.