Harmonia tigerwing
The Harmonia tigerwing is a butterfly with black wings and bright orange bands, a bit like a tiger. Those bright colours are a warning, because it is poisonous to eat. It lives in the warm lands from Mexico to South America.
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Fun facts
Its wings measure about 7 centimetres from tip to tip.
The tips of its front wings are black, and even its feelers are orange.
It has more than 20 subspecies, little local groups that each look a bit different, from Guatemala to Bolivia and Brazil.
Most asked questions about Harmonia tigerwing
?Is the Harmonia tigerwing poisonous?
Yes, it is poisonous to eat, so birds avoid it. It is harmless to look at and cannot bite or sting.
?How big is the Harmonia tigerwing?
Its wingspan is about 70 mm.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tithorea harmonia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Harmonia tiger
Where the facts come from
- Tithorea harmonia (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 pamsai, 200K views, thank you. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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