Cream-spotted tigerwing
The cream-spotted tigerwing is a big butterfly from the warm forests of Mexico, Central America and South America. Its front wings are black with white spots, and its back wings are orange with black edges.
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Fun facts
Its chrysalis, where the caterpillar turns into a butterfly, is completely golden.
No two look quite the same, because the wing pattern changes a lot from butterfly to butterfly.
It lives at forest edges, from the lowlands up to 1,500 metres high on mountain slopes.
It is a rare butterfly.
Most asked questions about Cream-spotted tigerwing
?How big is the cream-spotted tigerwing?
Its open wings are about 7.5 to 8 cm across.
?Where does the cream-spotted tigerwing live?
In Mexico, Central America and South America, at the edges of forests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tithorea tarricina
- Named by
- Hewitson, 1858
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Tarricina longwing, Variable presonian
Where the facts come from
- Tithorea tarricina (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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