Number eighty
Diaethria candrena
The number eighty is a small butterfly from South America. Under its back wings it has a pattern of lines that looks like a number painted on it. Its caterpillars grow up on hackberry trees.
Lives in
Argentina and Brazil
Wingspan
4 to 4.6 cm (1.6 to 1.8 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Butterflies cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, the grown-up drinks sweet liquids. Its caterpillars eat the leaves of hackberry trees.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 8 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 29 seconds
How big is Number eighty compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Number eighty about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its wings measure about 40 to 46 millimetres from tip to tip.
2
Its names come from the pattern under its wings, which looks like the number 80 or 88.
3
There are two subspecies: one lives in Argentina and southern Brazil, the other in Mato Grosso in Brazil.
you asked
Most asked questions about Number eighty
?Why is it called number eighty?
The pattern under its back wings looks like the number 80 or 88.
?Where does the number eighty butterfly live?
In Argentina and Brazil.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Diaethria candrena
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- South America
- Also known as
- Candrena eighty-eight
Where the facts come from
- Diaethria candrena (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 Gagea. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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