Desert orange tip
The desert orange tip is a small butterfly that lives in dry, sunny places. As its name says, its wings have orange tips. It is so small that some people call it the tiny orange tip.
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Fun facts
The females are often a little bigger than the males.
Most of them live in Africa, but one local kind also lives in Europe, in southern Spain.
The grown-ups fly from February to August, depending on where they live.
One local kind of it lives only on Socotra, an island near Arabia.
Most asked questions about Desert orange tip
?Where does the desert orange tip live?
In dry parts of Africa, in south-west Arabia and in southern Spain.
?How big is the desert orange tip?
Its open wings are about 28 to 38 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Colotis evagore
- Named by
- Klug, 1829
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, Europe
- Also known as
- Small orange tip, Tiny orange tip
Where the facts come from
- Colotis evagore (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 Dr. Alexey Yakovlev. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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