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Banded treebrown

Lethe confusa
Eats: Nectar and pollenButterfliesForests and woods6 legs

The banded treebrown is a brown butterfly with a bright white band across each front wing. Under its back wings it has a row of round eyespots ringed in brown and lilac. It loves bamboo forests.

Lives in
The Himalayas and northeast India to Myanmar and Java, in bamboo forests
Wingspan
5.4 to 6.4 cm (2.1 to 2.5 in)
Top speed
about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
Flying, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-ups feed as butterflies do, sipping sweet liquids with their long tongue.
For real!Photo of Banded treebrown
Picture by Sourabh.biswas003. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How wide are its wings?

Banded treebrown wings about 6.4 cm tip to tip (2.5 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)A crayon about 9 cm (3.5 in)A banana about 18 cm (7.1 in)
wings as wide as 2 toy building brickscould fly across a whole football pitch in 25 seconds

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Fun facts

1

Near the tip of each front wing it has two small white spots.

2

The underside has wavy lilac-white lines across both wings.

3

Its antennae are brown with an orange-yellow tip.

4

It belongs to the satyrs, a group of butterflies known for their eyespots.

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Most asked questions about Banded treebrown

?How big is the banded treebrown?

Its wings measure about 54 to 64 millimetres from tip to tip.

?Where does the banded treebrown live?

From the Himalayas through Assam and Myanmar to Java, mostly in bamboo forests.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Lethe confusa
Group
Butterflies
Family
Nymphalidae
Classification
Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
Lives on
Asia

Where the facts come from

  1. Lethe confusa (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by Sourabh.biswas003. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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