Constable
The constable is a butterfly that lives in thick forests across Asia, from India all the way to Japan. It comes in many slightly different colour forms, depending on where it lives. It likes to gather on wet mud with other butterflies.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It lives in so many places that scientists have named about 17 different local forms of it.
In Vietnam it seems to fly up to hilltops, where butterflies often meet each other.
It sips water and salts from wet mud, often in a group with other kinds of butterflies.
It has a very close cousin that lives on New Guinea and nearby islands.
Most asked questions about Constable
?Where does the constable butterfly live?
In dense forests in Asia, from India to Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and Indonesia.
?Is the constable butterfly dangerous?
No. It is a harmless butterfly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dichorragia nesimachus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Dichorragia nesimachus (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 pamsai, 200K views, thank you. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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