Gaudy baron
The gaudy baron is a dark greenish brown butterfly decorated with crimson red bars and little white spots. Gaudy means very bright and showy, and it really is dressed up for a party. The female is paler, with a broad white band and a blue-green shine on her back wings.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar is grass green and has ten pairs of long, branched spines sticking out sideways, like tiny feathery combs.
The tips of its feelers are crimson red underneath.
It has been seen high up in the mountains of India, at about 3,000 metres.
Its egg is reddish brown and its pupa is green with little brown marks.
Most asked questions about Gaudy baron
?Where does the gaudy baron live?
In South and Southeast Asia, from the foothills of the Himalayas down to the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.
?Is the gaudy baron dangerous?
No. It is a harmless butterfly. Even its spiny caterpillar is just showing off.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euthalia lubentina
- Named by
- Cramer, 1777
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Euthalia lubentina (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 Sagar Sarang. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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