Popinjay
Stibochiona nicea
The popinjay is a butterfly from Asia that looks like it is dressed for a party. The male is deep velvety black, dotted with white spots and little blue marks. The female is dark too, but she shimmers with metallic green.
Lives in
Asia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Butterflies cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, the grown-up drinks sweet liquids with its long, curly 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)
Popinjay about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The edges of its wings have white fringes, and on the front wings they are chequered with black.
2
On its back wings there is a row of blue circles with black middles, a bit like little eyes.
3
Underneath, its wings are a dark purplish black.
4
Its feelers, head and body are all black.
you asked
Most asked questions about Popinjay
?What does a popinjay butterfly look like?
The male is velvety black with white spots and blue marks. The female is dark with shiny green markings.
?Where does the popinjay live?
In Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Stibochiona nicea
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Stibochiona nicea (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 Vijaybarve 07:15, 29 December 2006 (UTC). CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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