Godart's numberwing
Godart's numberwing is a butterfly from South America with a secret number on its wings. Under its back wings there is a black and white pattern that looks like the number 88. You only see it when the butterfly folds its wings up.
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Fun facts
Its open wings are about 4.5 centimetres wide.
Some of its butterfly cousins also have number patterns like 88 on their wings.
It lives in many South American countries, including the upper Amazon area in Brazil.
Most asked questions about Godart's numberwing
?Why is it called the numberwing?
Because the black and white pattern under its back wings looks like the number 88.
?Where does Godart's numberwing live?
In South America, for example in Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Catagramma pygas
- Named by
- Godart, 1824
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- South America
- Also known as
- Pygas eighty-eight
Where the facts come from
- Catagramma pygas (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 Ji-Elle. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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