Common sergeant
The common sergeant is a butterfly with black wings and neat rows of white bands and spots. Underneath, its wings are a warm golden yellow with the same white marks. It lives in the warm lands of South and Southeast Asia.
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Fun facts
The male is black and the female is a softer blackish brown.
Its body has thin bluish white stripes, and it has a little ochre yellow spot between its eyes.
Butterflies born in the dry season have bigger white markings than those born in the wet season.
It was named by the famous scientist Carl Linnaeus back in 1758.
Most asked questions about Common sergeant
?What does the common sergeant look like?
It has black wings with white bands and spots on top, and golden yellow undersides.
?Where does the common sergeant live?
In South and Southeast Asia, from the Himalayas and India to Thailand and the Malay Peninsula.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Athyma perius
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Athyma perius (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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