White satyr
Pareuptychia ocirrhoe
The white satyr is a small butterfly from the forests of Central and South America. With its wings open, it is just a bit wider than a big coin. It has more than one name, and two of them talk about the bands on its wings.
Lives in
From Mexico to the Guianas, Paraguay and northern Argentina, in forests
Wingspan
3.7 cm (1.5 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, the grown-ups sip sweet drinks through a long tongue. The caterpillars eat a kind of grass.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 6 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 32 seconds
How big is White satyr compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
White satyr about 12 km/h (7.5 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is also called the two-banded satyr and the banded white ringlet.
2
Its caterpillars munch on a kind of wild grass.
3
One local kind of it lives in Panama and Suriname, and another one in Brazil.
you asked
Most asked questions about White satyr
?Where does the white satyr butterfly live?
In forests from Mexico down to Paraguay and northern Argentina.
?How big is the white satyr?
Its open wings are about 37 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pareuptychia ocirrhoe
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Two-banded satyr, Banded white ringlet
Where the facts come from
- Pareuptychia ocirrhoe (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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