Arizona sister
Adelpha eulalia
The Arizona sister is a butterfly from the south-western United States and Mexico. It belongs to a group of butterflies called the sisters. It is a close cousin of the California sister.
Lives in
From Guatemala and Mexico to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and southern California
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, the grown-ups drink sweet liquids through a long tongue.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Arizona sister about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Scientists used to think it was just a kind of Bredow's sister, but its genes showed it is its own species.
2
Sometimes it wanders as far as Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Utah and Nevada.
3
Its genus, Adelpha, is the group of butterflies known as sisters.
you asked
Most asked questions about Arizona sister
?Where does the Arizona sister live?
From Guatemala and Mexico to the south-western United States.
?Is the Arizona sister the same as the California sister?
No. They are close cousins, but different species.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Adelpha eulalia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Adelpha eulalia (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 Joseph C Boone. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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