Amber phantom
Haetera piera
The amber phantom is a butterfly from the warm rainforests of South America. Its name makes it sound like a little golden ghost. It belongs to the satyrs, a group of butterflies that often have eye-spots on their wings.
Lives in
South America: the Guianas, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, it drinks sweet liquids through a long, curly tongue.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Amber phantom about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives in six countries of South America.
2
Scientists have named five different local forms of it, from places like Bolivia, Peru and Brazil.
3
It is a cousin of the brown meadow butterflies you can see in European fields.
you asked
Most asked questions about Amber phantom
?Where does the amber phantom live?
In South America, in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela and the Guianas.
?Is the amber phantom dangerous?
No. It is a harmless butterfly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Haetera piera
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- South America
Where the facts come from
- Haetera piera (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 Didier Descouens. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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