North Island coastal copper
The North Island coastal copper is a small butterfly that lives only in New Zealand. It belongs to a group of butterflies called coppers. You can see it flying from spring all the way to the end of summer.
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Fun facts
It lives nowhere else in the world except New Zealand.
In the Mฤori language it is called pepe para riki. A few other copper butterflies in New Zealand share that name.
It flies from October to April. In New Zealand that is spring and summer, because the seasons there are the other way round from Europe.
Most asked questions about North Island coastal copper
?Where does the coastal copper live?
Only in New Zealand. It is not found anywhere else in the world.
?How big is the coastal copper?
Small. Its open wings measure about 2.5 to 3.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lycaena salustius
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Common copper, Coastal copper
Where the facts come from
- Lycaena salustius (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 Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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