Tropical fritillary
The tropical fritillary is a big orange butterfly covered in black spots. The female has dark wing tips with a wide white stripe across them. Underneath, its back wings are patterned with silvery white, olive and yellow.
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Fun facts
Its wings measure about 8 to 10 centimetres from tip to tip.
The male and female look different. Only the female has the dark wing tips with the white band.
In southern India some females have a shiny metallic green shading on their wings.
Most asked questions about Tropical fritillary
?How can you tell a male tropical fritillary from a female?
The female has black wing tips with a white stripe. The male is orange with black spots all over.
?Where does the tropical fritillary live?
In Asia, from India and China to Southeast Asia, and as far as Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argynnis hyperbius
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Indian fritillary
Where the facts come from
- Argynnis hyperbius (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 Alpsdake. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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