Bug card No. 3700 of 4,939

Rustic

Cupha erymanthis

Eats: Nectar and pollen ButterfliesRainforests and jungles6 legs

The rustic is a light brown butterfly with a wide yellow band across its front wings. The tips of its wings are black with a bright yellow spot. Males and females look exactly the same.

Lives in

Tropical forests of South and Southeast Asia

Top speed

about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)

Flying, estimate

Can it hurt you?

Harmless

Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.

What does it eat?

Grown-up butterflies sip nectar from flowers. Its caterpillars eat plants.

Photo of Rustic — Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How fast is it?

A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)

A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)

Rustic about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)

A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)

cool stuff

Fun facts

Its back wings have rows of small black spots and thin black wavy lines.

Underneath, its wings are much paler than on top.

It lives in warm, rainy forests.

you asked

Most asked questions about Rustic

?Where does the rustic butterfly live?

In tropical forests of South and Southeast Asia.

?How can you tell a male rustic from a female?

You cannot just by looking. Males and females look the same.

For bug experts

Scientific name: Cupha erymanthis
Group: Butterflies
Family: Nymphalidae
Classification: Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
Lives on: Asia

Where the facts come from

Cupha erymanthis (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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