Swamp tiger butterfly
Danaus affinis
The swamp tiger is a tropical butterfly from Southeast Asia and northern Australia. It belongs to the tiger butterflies, a family of the famous monarch butterfly. Its other names are Malay tiger and mangrove tiger.
Lives in
From Thailand to the Philippines, Indonesia, Melanesia and northeastern Australia
What does it eat?
The butterflies drink nectar from flowers.
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)
Swamp tiger butterfly 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 comes in many looks. Scientists count about 30 or more slightly different forms.
2
Its closest relative is the white tiger butterfly.
3
It belongs to a butterfly group nicknamed the crows and tigers.
you asked
Most asked questions about Swamp tiger butterfly
?Where does the swamp tiger butterfly live?
In tropical Asia, from Thailand to the Philippines and Indonesia, and in northeastern Australia.
?Is the swamp tiger related to the monarch?
Yes. Both belong to the same group of tiger butterflies, called Danaus.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Danaus affinis
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Malay tiger, Mangrove tiger
Where the facts come from
- Danaus affinis (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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