Red-based Jezebel
The red-based Jezebel is a black butterfly decorated with white and bright yellow patches. Under its back wings, close to the body, it has a rich crimson red spot. That red base gives it its name.
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Fun facts
Many of its caterpillars' food plants are mistletoes, plants that grow on the branches of other trees.
Its caterpillar is reddish brown with rows of long black and yellow bristles. It grows to about 5 centimetres.
The pupa is very dark and has three sharp points on its head.
It belongs to the whites and yellows family, the same family as the cabbage white butterfly.
Most asked questions about Red-based Jezebel
?How big is the red-based Jezebel?
Its wingspan is about 66 to 90 millimetres.
?What does the red-based Jezebel caterpillar eat?
Young leaves of plants like mistletoes, tea, sandalwood and the binga tree.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Delias pasithoe
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Redbase Jezebel
Where the facts come from
- Delias pasithoe (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 Rahulbiswas29. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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