Diana treebrown
The Diana treebrown is a dark brown butterfly with round eyespots on its wings. It lives in leafy forests in Japan and the far east of Russia. Its caterpillars grow up on bamboo grass.
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Fun facts
Its back wings have about six eyespots of different sizes.
The mother lays her eggs one at a time on the underside of bamboo grass leaves.
It looks a lot like a cousin, but that cousin has a white band across its wings.
It lives in forests on flat land and in the mountains.
There are five subspecies, some living only on certain islands.
Most asked questions about Diana treebrown
?How big is the Diana treebrown?
Its wings are about 45 to 55 millimetres from tip to tip.
?What does the Diana treebrown eat?
The caterpillars eat bamboo grass. The grown-ups drink juices from trees, bamboo and sometimes dead animals.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lethe diana
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Lethe diana (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 KENPEI. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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