Mexican silverspot
The Mexican silverspot is an orange butterfly with thick dark lines along its wing veins. Underneath, its back wings are brown and covered with big shiny silver spots. It lives from the southern United States to South America.
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Fun facts
Its silver spots shine like coins, which fits its name Moneta, the Roman goddess of money and luck.
The bases of its wings are brown, while the rest of the top side is orange.
Scientists know three subspecies.
Most asked questions about Mexican silverspot
?Why is it called the Mexican silverspot?
Because of the big silver spots under its wings, and because it lives in Mexico and nearby.
?How big is the Mexican silverspot?
Its wings measure about 7.5 to 8 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dione moneta
- Named by
- Hübner, 1825
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Dione moneta (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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