Chinese bushbrown
Mycalesis gotama
The Chinese bushbrown is a brown butterfly from East Asia. It belongs to a group of butterflies that often have round eye spots on their wings. Its caterpillars grow up on grasses.
Lives in
China, Japan, Taiwan, Burma, northern Vietnam and the eastern Himalayas
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Butterflies cannot bite or sting, so just enjoy watching it.
What does it eat?
Grown-up butterflies sip sweet drinks. The caterpillars eat grasses, rice and bamboo.
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)
Chinese bushbrown about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its caterpillars eat many kinds of grass, including rice plants and bamboo.
2
There are a few slightly different kinds of it, for example one in Taiwan and one in Japan.
3
It belongs to the satyr butterflies, a group of mostly brown butterflies.
you asked
Most asked questions about Chinese bushbrown
?What does the Chinese bushbrown caterpillar eat?
Grasses such as silver grass, rice and bamboo.
?Where does the Chinese bushbrown live?
In East Asia: China, Japan, Taiwan, Burma, northern Vietnam and the eastern Himalayas.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Mycalesis gotama
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Mycalesis gotama (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 ใฎใฝใกใ from Miyagi, Japan .. CC BY 2.1 jp, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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