Turquoise emperor
The turquoise emperor is a big tropical butterfly from Central and South America. The boys have brown wings with a wide shiny blue band across the middle that sparkles in the sun. The girls have a white band and a big orange patch instead.
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Fun facts
Its wings can measure about 7.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
Its long sucking tongue is green, like in all its close relatives.
Underneath, its wings are yellowish or greyish with black marks, so it is much less flashy when its wings are closed.
Most asked questions about Turquoise emperor
?Where does the turquoise emperor live?
In Mexico, Central America and South America.
?Why is it called the turquoise emperor?
Because the boys have a shiny blue band on their wings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Doxocopa laurentia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Cherubina emperor
Where the facts come from
- Doxocopa laurentia (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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