Great nawab
The great nawab is a big, grand butterfly from Asia. On top its wings are pale creamy white with wide purplish black edges, and underneath they shine silvery white. Each back wing has little black tails with a pale blue streak.
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Fun facts
Its wings can measure up to 12 centimetres from tip to tip, wider than a grown-up's hand.
A nawab was a kind of prince in old India, and this butterfly belongs to a group called the rajahs and nawabs.
Its back wings have a row of blue crescent moons on them.
There are ten slightly different kinds of it, living in different parts of Asia.
Most asked questions about Great nawab
?How big is the great nawab?
Its wingspan is about 98 to 121 millimetres, so it is a really big butterfly.
?Where does the great nawab live?
In South and East Asia, from India and Nepal to China, Taiwan and Malaysia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polyura eudamippus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Polyura eudamippus (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 Tamaghna Sengupta. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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