Black-tipped archduke
The black-tipped archduke is a big butterfly from the swamp forests of Asia. The male and female look so different that you might think they are two kinds of butterfly. The male is velvety black with shiny blue-green edges, and the female is brown with rows of pale yellow spots.
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Its wings measure about 8 to 10 centimetres from tip to tip.
The male's wings are velvety black on top, with a metallic blue-green shine along the edges.
The female is brownish and covered in several rows of yellowish-white spots.
It likes old, untouched swamp forests best.
It lives in many countries and on many islands, from India all the way to Borneo and the Philippines.
Most asked questions about Black-tipped archduke
?Where does the black-tipped archduke live?
In swamp forests in India, southern China and Southeast Asia, as far as Borneo and the Philippines.
?How big is the black-tipped archduke?
Its wingspan is about 80 to 100 millimetres, as wide as a grown-up's palm.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lexias dirtea
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Archduke
Where the facts come from
- Lexias dirtea (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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