True cattleheart
The true cattleheart is a big black butterfly with a bright red patch on each back wing. The male also has a green triangle on his front wings, and the female has a white patch instead. It flutters through the warm rainforests of Central and South America.
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Fun facts
Its wings measure about 7 to 8.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
Its caterpillar is purple-brown with black spots and a white stripe along each side.
The chrysalis, where the caterpillar turns into a butterfly, is pale yellow-green.
It has many names, such as Arcas cattleheart and pink-checked cattleheart.
In 2004 a scientist decided that two butterflies thought to be different kinds were really this one.
Most asked questions about True cattleheart
?What does the true cattleheart look like?
It is black with a red patch on the back wings. The male has a green patch on the front wings and the female a white one.
?Where does the true cattleheart live?
In tropical forests from Mexico to the north of South America.
?What does the true cattleheart caterpillar eat?
Leaves of pipevine plants, called Aristolochia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Parides eurimedes
- Named by
- Stoll, 1782
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Papilionidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Mylotes cattleheart, Arcas cattleheart, Pink-checked cattleheart
Where the facts come from
- Parides eurimedes (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 D. Gordon E. Robertson. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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