Canary speckled wood
The Canary speckled wood is a brown butterfly with small red-brown spots. It lives only on a few of the Canary Islands, out in the ocean near Africa. You can see it flying in every month of the year.
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Fun facts
It is a close cousin of the speckled wood, a butterfly that lives in much of Europe.
It is darker on top than its cousin, but lighter underneath, with a clear band across the back wing.
It lives on just four islands: La Gomera, La Palma, Tenerife and Gran Canaria.
Most asked questions about Canary speckled wood
?Where does the Canary speckled wood live?
Only on four of the Canary Islands: La Gomera, La Palma, Tenerife and Gran Canaria.
?How big is the Canary speckled wood?
Its open wings are 4 to 5 cm across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pararge xiphioides
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Africa
Where the facts come from
- Pararge xiphioides (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 Engeser at German Wikipedia ( Original text: Engeser 15:26, 13. Mär. 2007 (CET) ). CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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