Chocolate albatross
The chocolate albatross is a butterfly from South and Southeast Asia. The male is white on top with chocolate brown edges, and bright lemon yellow underneath. The female is white with lots of dark brown clouds on her wings.
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Fun facts
It flies fast and strong, close to the ground.
Big groups of them sometimes gather on wet mud to drink.
The males like to fly in circles around trees and bushes.
Butterflies born in the dry season are smaller than those from the rainy season.
It likes rainy hills, up to about 900 m high.
Most asked questions about Chocolate albatross
?Why is it called the chocolate albatross?
Because of the chocolate brown edges and markings on its white and yellow wings.
?How big is the chocolate albatross?
Its open wings measure about 5.5 to 7 cm across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Appias lyncida
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Appias lyncida (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 Sayan Sanyal. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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