Pallas' sailer
Pallas' sailer is a black butterfly with bold white bands and spots across its wings. Underneath, its wings are rusty brown with the same white pattern. Its name comes from the way it glides through the air.
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Fun facts
Its back wings have two rows of white bands, broken up only by the dark veins.
It looks a lot like a close cousin, but its white marks are bigger.
It lives across a huge area, from the middle of Europe all the way to Japan.
Most asked questions about Pallas' sailer
?What does Pallas' sailer look like?
It is black with white bands and spots on top, and rusty brown with white marks underneath.
?Where does Pallas' sailer live?
From central Europe and Russia across Asia to India and Japan.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neptis sappho
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Common glider
Where the facts come from
- Neptis sappho (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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