Common redeye
Matapa aria
The common redeye is a skipper, a kind of butterfly with a thick body. It is chocolate brown on top and bright rusty brown underneath. As its name says, it has red eyes.
Lives in
India and Southeast Asia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Butterflies cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-ups sip nectar. The caterpillars eat bamboo leaves.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
Common redeye about 30 km/h (19 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of bamboo.
2
The male has a little grey mark like a comma on each front wing. The female does not.
3
The female has pale orange-yellow fringes on her back wings.
you asked
Most asked questions about Common redeye
?What does the common redeye eat?
The caterpillars eat bamboo leaves, and the butterflies sip nectar.
?Where does the common redeye live?
In India and Southeast Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Matapa aria
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Matapa aria (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 Mohitpatel845. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
If we got something wrong, sorry, we are bug fans, not a science journal. Tell us at [email protected] and we will fix it.
Bug Wiki honey jar For grown-ups: Bug Wiki is free, with no ads and no tracking. A small tip helps keep it online.Leave a tip
Monarch butterfly
Peacock butterfly
Blue morpho
Old World swallowtail
Small white
Eastern tiger swallowtail
Lilly pilly leaf beetle
Goliath birdeater
Goliath beetle
New World screwworm fly
Giant huntsman spider
Vietnamese centipede.jpg){kind=link}