Rusty-tipped page
The rusty-tipped page is a big butterfly with a bold white stripe running across its black wings. The tips of its front wings are rusty orange. In Central America it is one of the most common butterflies you can see.
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Fun facts
Underneath, its wings are brown all over, but the white stripe shows there too.
It lives in the tropics all year round.
There are three kinds of it. In two of them the wing tips are black instead of rusty orange.
Now and then it visits southern New Mexico in the United States.
Most asked questions about Rusty-tipped page
?Where does the rusty-tipped page live?
From southern Texas through Mexico and Central America to South America.
?How big is the rusty-tipped page?
Its wings are about 7 to 7.5 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Siproeta epaphus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Brown siproeta
Where the facts come from
- Siproeta epaphus (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 Caya!!. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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