Common banded peacock swallowtail
The common banded peacock is a big swallowtail butterfly with a shiny band across its dark wings. The band glows blue or green, depending on how you look at it, just like a peacock feather. It is a fast flyer that zooms high among the trees.
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Fun facts
Its wings are about 10 to 11.5 centimetres from tip to tip, bigger than a grown-up's hand is wide.
Its glowing colour comes from special scales on its wings.
It flutters its wings in a hurry even while it drinks nectar.
On its back wings it has a red spot with a black middle, like an eye, to fool hungry birds.
It likes to fly alone.
Most asked questions about Common banded peacock swallowtail
?Why is it called a peacock?
Its wings shine blue and green like a peacock's feathers.
?How big is the common banded peacock?
Its wings are about 10 to 11.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Papilio crino
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Papilionidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Common banded peacock
Where the facts come from
- Papilio crino (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 Sandip Kr Sanyal. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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