Lesser gull
The lesser gull is a white butterfly from South and Southeast Asia. The male is white with black wing tips, while the female is dark brown with white streaks. It even changes its look with the seasons: butterflies born in the rainy season look different from those born in the dry season.
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In the rainy season the underside of its wings is greenish yellow. In the dry season it turns ochre brown, like dry leaves.
The male is mostly white on top, but the female is dark brownish black with white streaks.
Its wings measure about 6 to 7 centimetres from tip to tip.
It was first described by the French scientist Hippolyte Lucas in 1852.
Most asked questions about Lesser gull
?Where does the lesser gull live?
In South and Southeast Asia, for example in India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
?How big is the lesser gull?
Its wingspan is about 58 to 74 millimetres, about as wide as a child's palm.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cepora nadina
- Named by
- Lucas, 1852
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Cepora nadina (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 Anitava Roy. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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