Dark glassy tiger
Parantica agleoides
The dark glassy tiger is a butterfly from South and Southeast Asia. Its dark wings have pale, half see-through streaks and spots, like little windows of frosted glass. It belongs to a group of butterflies called the crows and tigers.
Lives in
Northeastern India, Myanmar and Southeast Asia as far as Java
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, it drinks nectar from flowers.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Dark glassy tiger about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It looks almost exactly like its cousin the glassy tiger, but its pale glassy streaks are shorter and thinner.
2
Because the streaks are smaller, more of the black edge of its back wings shows.
3
Underneath, its wings are a little browner than its cousin's.
you asked
Most asked questions about Dark glassy tiger
?Where does the dark glassy tiger live?
In northeastern India, Myanmar and Southeast Asia, as far as Java.
?Why is it called glassy?
Its pale streaks and spots are half see-through, a bit like frosted glass.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Parantica agleoides
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Parantica agleoides (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 DANIEL JULIE from Paris, France. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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