Common three-ring
The common three-ring is a small butterfly from the dry lands of Africa and Asia. It belongs to a group of butterflies with eye-like rings on their wings. In southern Africa you can see it flying at any time of year.
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Fun facts
The females are a little bigger than the males. Their wings measure up to 38 millimetres across.
In southern Africa there are the most of them in summer and autumn.
Its caterpillars munch on grasses.
It has three subspecies, one in Arabia and northern Africa, one in India and one in southern Africa.
Most asked questions about Common three-ring
?Where does the common three-ring live?
In dry parts of Africa and Asia, from southern Africa to Turkey and India.
?How big is the common three-ring?
Its wingspan is 30 to 38 mm.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ypthima asterope
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- African ringlet
Where the facts come from
- Ypthima asterope (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 Zeynel Cebeci. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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