Cynosura eighty-eight
Callicore cynosura
Name means: “the markings under its back wings look like the letters B and D”
The Cynosura eighty-eight is a butterfly from the Amazon rainforest. Under its back wings it has markings that look like letters. Some people read them as the letters B and D.
Lives in
The Amazon rainforest, from Colombia to Brazil, Peru and Bolivia
Wingspan
4.7 cm (1.9 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Butterflies cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The butterflies drink sweet liquids like other butterflies. The caterpillars eat plants from the soapberry family.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 8 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 29 seconds
How big is Cynosura eighty-eight compared to YOU?
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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)
Cynosura eighty-eight about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
With its wings open it is just under 5 centimetres across.
2
It is also called the BD butterfly because of the B and D shapes under its back wings.
3
There are three slightly different kinds of it in different parts of the Amazon.
you asked
Most asked questions about Cynosura eighty-eight
?Why is it called the BD butterfly?
Because the markings under its back wings look like the letters B and D.
?How big is the Cynosura eighty-eight?
Its open wings are about 4.7 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Callicore cynosura
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- South America
- Also known as
- BD butterfly
Where the facts come from
- Callicore cynosura (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 Geoff Gallice. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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