Orange mapwing
The orange mapwing is a butterfly with black and orange-brown wings. Each back wing ends in two little tails. Underneath, its wings are covered in fine wavy lines.
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Fun facts
The tails on its back wings can be long or short.
It lives in the mountains, in forests between 300 and 1,700 metres high.
It is common and lives in many countries, from Texas all the way to Argentina and Uruguay.
Its back wings have a row of black spots near the edge.
Most asked questions about Orange mapwing
?Why is it called the orange mapwing?
The underside of its wings has lines that look like a map of hills and mountains.
?How big is the orange mapwing?
Its wings measure about 4 to 5 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hypanartia lethe
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Orange admiral
Where the facts come from
- Hypanartia lethe (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 Lsadonkey. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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