Banded treebrown
The banded treebrown is a brown butterfly with a bright white band across each front wing. Under its back wings it has a row of round eyespots ringed in brown and lilac. It loves bamboo forests.
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Fun facts
Near the tip of each front wing it has two small white spots.
The underside has wavy lilac-white lines across both wings.
Its antennae are brown with an orange-yellow tip.
It belongs to the satyrs, a group of butterflies known for their eyespots.
Most asked questions about Banded treebrown
?How big is the banded treebrown?
Its wings measure about 54 to 64 millimetres from tip to tip.
?Where does the banded treebrown live?
From the Himalayas through Assam and Myanmar to Java, mostly in bamboo forests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lethe confusa
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Lethe confusa (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 Sourabh.biswas003. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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