Ringed china-mark
The ringed china-mark is a moth whose caterpillar lives under water. The caterpillar has soft little threads on its body that work like gills, so it can breathe in the water. The grown-up moth is pale brown and white and flies near ponds.
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Fun facts
The girls are bigger than the boys.
Its caterpillar is one of the few caterpillars that can breathe under water.
Its scientific name comes from water soldier, a floating water plant its caterpillar eats.
It flies from May to September.
Most asked questions about Ringed china-mark
?Can caterpillars live under water?
Yes. The ringed china-mark caterpillar lives in water and breathes with gill-like threads.
?What does the ringed china-mark eat?
Its caterpillars eat water plants like water lilies and pondweed.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Parapoynx stratiotata
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Parapoynx stratiotata (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 de:Benutzer:Engeser , uploaded to Commons by User:Fvlamoen. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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