White-barred emperor
The white-barred emperor is a big black butterfly from Africa with a wide white band across its wings. Each back wing ends in a short little tail. You can see it flying at any time of the year.
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Fun facts
Females are bigger than males. A big female can measure about 9 centimetres across her wings.
Near the edge of its back wings it has a few small blue spots.
Underneath, its wings are reddish brown with a white band and big black triangles near the edge.
There are five kinds of it in different parts of Africa, and one of them lives only on Pemba Island.
Most asked questions about White-barred emperor
?Where does the white-barred emperor live?
In many parts of Africa, from West Africa to Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa.
?How big is the white-barred emperor?
Quite big. Its wings measure 6 to 9 centimetres across, and females are the biggest.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Charaxes brutus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Africa
- Also known as
- White-barred Charaxes
Where the facts come from
- Charaxes brutus (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 Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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