Chocolate tiger
The chocolate tiger is a big butterfly with black and dark brown wings, a bit like dark chocolate. Its wings have pale blue-white spots that you can almost see through. Underneath, the wings are a warm chestnut brown.
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Fun facts
With open wings it is about as wide as a grown-up's hand.
Its head and middle part are black with little white dots, and its tummy is bright yellowish orange.
It belongs to a group of butterflies called the crows and tigers.
Most asked questions about Chocolate tiger
?How big is the chocolate tiger butterfly?
Its open wings measure about 94 to 100 millimetres across.
?Where does the chocolate tiger live?
In southern Asia, from the eastern Himalayas to Myanmar and Malaysia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Parantica melaneus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Parantica melaneus (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 Sandipoutsider. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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