Southern sullied sailer
The southern sullied sailer is a butterfly from South and Southeast Asia. Its wings have dark bars and big bluish-white spots, each one framed in black. Underneath, parts of its wings are bright red.
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Fun facts
The edges of its wings have a fringe of tiny hairs that goes black, white, black, white.
Its body is red on top and bluish-grey underneath, and it has bronze-brown eyes.
Butterflies that hatch in the dry season have a wider white band on their wings.
It lives in many places, from India and China to Java, Borneo and the Philippines, and looks a little different in different places.
Most asked questions about Southern sullied sailer
?Where does the southern sullied sailer live?
In South and Southeast Asia, for example in India, Thailand, China, Indonesia and the Philippines.
?What colour is the southern sullied sailer?
It has dark bars and bluish-white spots framed in black, and bright red parts on the underside of its wings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neptis clinia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Clear sailer
Where the facts come from
- Neptis clinia (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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