Common archduke
The common archduke is a big forest butterfly from tropical Asia. The male is black with shimmering blue-green edges, while the female is brown with rows of yellow spots. They look so different you might think they are two kinds of butterfly.
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Fun facts
It likes to stand on sunny spots on the forest floor, along paths and in clearings.
The tips of its feelers are yellow orange. That is how you tell it from a look-alike cousin with black tips.
Its caterpillar is pale green and covered in spines that stick out all around its body.
Even its chrysalis is pale green.
Most asked questions about Common archduke
?How big is the common archduke?
Its wings are about 8 to 9 centimetres across.
?Why do male and female common archdukes look different?
The male is black with blue-green edges and the female is brown with yellow spots, which helps her stay hidden.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lexias pardalis
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Lexias pardalis (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 Alexey Yakovlev. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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