Malayan eggfly
The Malayan eggfly is a brown butterfly with a purple shine on its front wings and white spots along the edges. It copies the look of another group of butterflies, the crows. It flutters through warm lowlands and rainforests in Southeast Asia.
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Fun facts
The grown-up butterfly walks on only four legs. The front pair is tiny.
The mother lays a big cluster of round, gold-coloured eggs under a leaf.
The eggs hatch after only 3 or 4 days.
The biggest caterpillars are black with yellow spots and spines, and have a yellow head with two long black horns.
The caterpillars stay together in big groups.
Most asked questions about Malayan eggfly
?How big is the Malayan eggfly?
Its wings measure about 65 to 75 millimetres from tip to tip.
?Where does the Malayan eggfly live?
In Southeast Asia, New Guinea and Australia, mostly in lowlands and rainforests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hypolimnas anomala
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Crow eggfly
Where the facts come from
- Hypolimnas anomala (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 John Tann from Sydney, Australia. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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