Common leopard
The common leopard is an orange yellow butterfly covered in black spots, just like a leopard's fur. It loves the sun and stays away from shady places. It often sits with its wings spread wide open to warm up.
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Fun facts
It guards its own little patch and chases other butterflies away.
Groups of them often gather on wet ground to drink, which is called mud-puddling.
It lives as high as 3000 metres up in the Himalaya mountains.
It likes dry weather and disappears from the wettest places during the rainy season.
Most asked questions about Common leopard
?Why is it called the common leopard?
Because its orange wings are covered in black spots, like a leopard.
?Where does the common leopard butterfly live?
In Africa south of the Sahara, southern Asia and Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phalanta phalantha
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Spotted rustic
Where the facts come from
- Phalanta phalantha (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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