Striped albatross
Appias libythea
The striped albatross is a small white butterfly from South and Southeast Asia. It belongs to the family of whites and yellows. It looks a bit different in the rainy season than in the dry season.
Lives in
South and Southeast Asia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, it sips sweet nectar from flowers.
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)
Striped albatross about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The male is greyish white on top with thin black edges on the front wings.
2
The female has much more black on her wings than the male, with a white patch near the tip.
3
Underneath, its wings are white, and in the dry season they are tinted pale yellow.
you asked
Most asked questions about Striped albatross
?Where does the striped albatross live?
In South and Southeast Asia.
?How can you tell the male and female apart?
The male is mostly white, while the female has wide dark bands on her wings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Appias libythea
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Appias libythea (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 Firos AK. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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