Discrete chaperon
The discrete chaperon is a moth with milky white or pinkish wings covered in black triangle patches. Its body is reddish with black spots. The males can make sounds with their wings while they fly.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillars are grey brown and hairy, with dark warts on every segment.
After they finish eating, the caterpillars rest for a long time inside their cocoons before changing.
The moths fly in August and September.
Some of them are very pink, and others are tinted yellowish or grey.
Most asked questions about Discrete chaperon
?Can the discrete chaperon make sounds?
Yes. The males can make sounds with their wings while flying.
?Where does the discrete chaperon live?
In sunny, rocky places, grasslands and hillsides of southern Europe and north-west Africa.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cymbalophora pudica
- Named by
- Esper, 1784
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Cymbalophora pudica (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 Luis José Bellido Cruz. CC BY-SA 2.5 es, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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