Southern red rim
Biblis hyperia
The southern red rim is a butterfly with velvety black front wings and grey back wings. Across its back wings runs a pretty pinkish-red band, like a red rim. It flies in warm forests of the Americas.
Lives in
From southern Texas and Mexico through the Caribbean and Central America to Paraguay
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat a climbing plant called Tragia.
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)
Southern red rim about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its caterpillar is grey-brown with raised green marks and spikes.
2
It flies from March to November.
3
Scientists think a second, not yet named species of red rim lives in Peru.
you asked
Most asked questions about Southern red rim
?Where does the red rim butterfly live?
From southern Texas through Mexico and Central America to South America.
?What does the red rim caterpillar eat?
It eats a climbing plant called Tragia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Biblis hyperia
- Named by
- Cramer, 1779
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Red rim, Crimson-banded black
Where the facts come from
- Biblis hyperia (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 D. Gordon E. Robertson. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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