Cornelian
The cornelian is a small butterfly from warm countries. The male is bright scarlet red on top with wide black edges, while the female is a warm brown. It has a thin black tail on each back wing with a white tip.
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Fun facts
Its wings are only about 3 centimetres from tip to tip.
Underneath, its wings are greyish brown with patterns drawn in thin white lines.
Its feelers are black with white rings and a red tip.
It has many slightly different kinds on different islands, from Sri Lanka and Taiwan to Fiji.
Most asked questions about Cornelian
?What does the cornelian eat?
Its caterpillars eat many plants, including lychee and longan trees.
?Where does the cornelian live?
In warm parts of Asia, on Pacific islands like Fiji, and in tropical Queensland in Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Deudorix epijarbas
- Named by
- Moore, 1857
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Hairy line blue
Where the facts come from
- Deudorix epijarbas (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 Peellden. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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