Magpie crow butterfly
Euploea radamanthus
The magpie crow is a butterfly from India and Southeast Asia. It belongs to the same group as the famous monarch butterfly. It lives from the eastern Himalaya mountains all the way down to Malaysia.
Lives in
India and Southeast Asia, from the eastern Himalayas to the Malay region
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a butterfly and cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, the grown-up drinks sweet nectar from flowers.
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)
Magpie crow 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 the brush-footed butterflies, whose front legs are so short and hairy that they look like little brushes.
2
There are several slightly different kinds of it, called subspecies, in different places.
3
It lives as far up as the eastern Himalayas, the highest mountains in the world.
you asked
Most asked questions about Magpie crow butterfly
?Where does the magpie crow butterfly live?
In India and Southeast Asia, from the eastern Himalayas to Malaysia.
?Is the magpie crow butterfly dangerous?
No. It is a harmless butterfly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euploea radamanthus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Magpie crow
Where the facts come from
- Euploea radamanthus (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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