One-spotted prepona
The one-spotted prepona is a fast butterfly with black wings crossed by bright pale blue bands. When it closes its wings, it shows a plain pale brown underside. It lives high up at the edges of tropical forests.
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Fun facts
It likes the edges of the forest roof, high up in the trees.
The underside of its back wings has a lighter band in the middle and a row of tiny dark dots near the edge.
There are six different kinds of it, living in different countries from Mexico to Brazil.
Most asked questions about One-spotted prepona
?What does the one-spotted prepona eat?
The butterflies feed on rotting fruit and dung. The caterpillars eat custard apple and Barbados cherry leaves.
?How big is the one-spotted prepona?
Its wings measure about 54 to 58 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Archaeoprepona demophon
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Banded king shoemaker, Demophon shoemaker
Where the facts come from
- Archaeoprepona demophon (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 Silk666. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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