Tawny rajah
The tawny rajah is a butterfly with orange-brown wings and dark speckled tips. Underneath, its wings are speckled brown with pale zigzag bands. Boys and girls look almost the same.
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Fun facts
It likes to sit on wet mud and sip from it, which is called mud-puddling.
In South India it has been seen travelling long distances.
Its caterpillars can eat leaves of camphor trees, tamarind and many other trees.
More than 20 different kinds of it live on different islands and countries.
Most asked questions about Tawny rajah
?What does the tawny rajah eat?
Its caterpillars eat leaves of trees like camphor and tamarind. Adults sip from wet mud.
?How big is the tawny rajah?
Its wings measure about 7 to 9 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Charaxes bernardus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Charaxes bernardus (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 D. Gordon E. Robertson. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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