Agathina emperor
The agathina emperor is a butterfly from the Amazon region of South America. Boys and girls look very different. Males have bright blue or purple wings, while females are brown with an orange band across the front wings.
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Fun facts
Its wings measure about 5 centimetres from tip to tip.
Its long drinking tube, called a proboscis, is green.
It is sometimes called the purple emperor, but that name also belongs to a butterfly in Europe.
Most asked questions about Agathina emperor
?Where does the agathina emperor live?
In the Guianas, northern Brazil and the Amazon region of South America.
?Why do male and female agathina emperors look different?
They just come in different colours: males are bright blue or purple, and females are brown with an orange band.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Doxocopa agathina
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- South America
- Also known as
- Purple emperor
Where the facts come from
- Doxocopa agathina (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 Lsadonkey. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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