Common raven butterfly
The common raven is a black swallowtail butterfly from South and Southeast Asia. Its dark wings are sprinkled with tiny yellowish brown scales. On its back wings it has a row of creamy patches.
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Fun facts
The edges of its wings have a fringe of black and white, like a tiny striped border.
The female is duller than the male and has more white spots and streaks on her wings.
In one form of this butterfly, the male's wings are a soft, velvety dark brown.
It belongs to the swallowtails, a family of big and often colourful butterflies.
Most asked questions about Common raven butterfly
?Where does the common raven butterfly live?
In northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia and other parts of Southeast Asia.
?Is the common raven butterfly dangerous?
No. It is a harmless butterfly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Papilio castor
- Named by
- Westwood, 1842
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Papilionidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Common raven
Where the facts come from
- Papilio castor (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 Yuwaraj Gurjar <ygurjar(at)raymondindia.com>. CC BY-SA 2.5 in, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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