Smooth-eyed bushbrown
The smooth-eyed bushbrown is a dark brown butterfly that lives in grassy places. On top its wings are plain brown, but underneath they have a white band and five round eyespots. It is shy and likes to stay low among the plants.
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Fun facts
Its pupa looks like a big grain of barley or a tiny banana.
Its caterpillar is rosy red on top and green underneath, with two brown spines on its head pointing forward.
It is a weak flier. When something disturbs it, it flutters a short way and lands again.
When it suns itself, it lines its body up with the sun's rays.
It lives in grassy places up to 1,600 metres high.
Most asked questions about Smooth-eyed bushbrown
?Where does the smooth-eyed bushbrown live?
In grassy places in South and Southeast Asia, New Guinea and Australia.
?How big is the smooth-eyed bushbrown?
Its wings measure 4.5 to 5.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
?Is the smooth-eyed bushbrown dangerous?
No. It is a shy, harmless butterfly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Orsotriaena medus
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1775
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Medus brown, Dark grass-brown
Where the facts come from
- Orsotriaena (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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