Lesser fiery copper
The lesser fiery copper is a tiny butterfly that shines bright golden red, like a little flame. Underneath, its wings are grey with patches of cinnabar red. It loves warm, dry, sunny hillsides.
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Fun facts
With its wings open it is only about one and a half centimetres across.
The spring butterflies have no tails on their wings, but the summer ones grow short little tails.
It can be seen flying from April to October, depending on where it lives.
Its caterpillar is green with a yellow line along its back.
Most asked questions about Lesser fiery copper
?How big is the lesser fiery copper?
Very small. Its open wings are only about 14 to 16 millimetres across.
?Where does the lesser fiery copper live?
From eastern Europe and Italy across Asia to Mongolia and China, on dry, sunny hillsides.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lycaena thersamon
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Lycaena thersamon (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 Zeynel Cebeci. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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