Large salmon Arab tip
The large salmon Arab tip is a small butterfly with wings the colour of pale salmon, a soft pinky orange. It lives in hot, dry lands from Africa to India. It belongs to the same family as the white and yellow butterflies.
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Fun facts
Butterflies from deserts are paler, and those from places with more rain are darker.
Some females look just like the males, but others are white with a little salmon colour.
In wetter places, the underside of its wings can have a pretty rosy glow.
Males have a small patch of special brown scales on the underside of each front wing.
In India it can be found high in the Nilgiri hills, up to 1,800 metres above the sea.
Most asked questions about Large salmon Arab tip
?Where does the large salmon Arab tip live?
In dry lands of Africa, Arabia and Asia, from Chad to India and Sri Lanka.
?What colour is the large salmon Arab tip?
Pale salmon, a soft pinky orange, with black markings near the wing edges.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Colotis fausta
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Large salmon Arab
Where the facts come from
- Colotis fausta (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 Firos AK. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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