Large faun
The large faun is a brown and dark red butterfly from South and South-East Asia. Across its front wings it has a wide, bright yellowish band, like a sash.
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Fun facts
The yellow band on the female's wings is wider than the one on the male's.
Underneath, each wing has a row of round white spots, five to seven of them.
One kind of large faun, from the Shan hills of Myanmar, is very rare.
It belongs to the brush-footed butterflies, whose front legs are so small that they seem to walk on only four.
Most asked questions about Large faun
?Where does the large faun live?
In Asia, from Assam in India across to Myanmar.
?What does the large faun look like?
It is dark red and brown, with a wide yellowish band on its front wings and white spots underneath.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Faunis eumeus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Faunis eumeus (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 Peellden. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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