White tiger butterfly
Danaus melanippus
The white tiger is a pretty butterfly with pale wings crossed by bold black veins, like a tiger's stripes. It lives in the warm tropical parts of Asia. It is a cousin of the famous monarch butterfly.
Lives in
Tropical Asia, from eastern India through Southeast Asia to Indonesia, the Philippines, southern China and Taiwan
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, it sips sweet nectar from flowers 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)
White tiger butterfly about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It belongs to a group of butterflies called the crows and tigers.
2
There are about 17 different kinds of it, each living on its own islands or in its own part of Asia.
3
Its closest relative is the Malay tiger butterfly.
you asked
Most asked questions about White tiger butterfly
?Where does the white tiger butterfly live?
In tropical Asia, from eastern India to Indonesia, the Philippines, southern China and Taiwan.
?Is the white tiger butterfly related to the monarch?
Yes. Both belong to the same genus, Danaus.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Danaus melanippus
- Named by
- Cramer, 1777
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Black veined tiger, Common tiger, Eastern common tiger
Where the facts come from
- Danaus melanippus (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 Sandipoutsider. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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