Dirce beauty
Colobura dirce
The dirce beauty is a tropical butterfly from the Americas. Its other name, the zebra mosaic, tells you it has a striped, patterned look. It lives where Cecropia trees grow.
Lives in
Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America, in tropical forests
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of Cecropia trees.
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)
Dirce beauty about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Each front wing is about 3.3 centimetres long.
2
It was named by Carl Linnaeus, the famous scientist who gave many animals their scientific names.
3
There are two kinds of it, one of them living on Caribbean islands.
you asked
Most asked questions about Dirce beauty
?What does the dirce beauty caterpillar eat?
The leaves of Cecropia trees.
?Where does the dirce beauty live?
In Central America, the Caribbean and the north of South America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Colobura dirce
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Mosaic, Zebra mosaic
Where the facts come from
- Colobura dirce (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 Richard Bartz. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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