Double-branded crow butterfly
The double-branded crow is a dark brown butterfly, like the other crow butterflies. It looks almost exactly like its cousin, the common crow. The way to tell them apart is that the male has two special patches on each front wing instead of one.
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Fun facts
Its name comes from the two brand marks on the male's front wing.
It belongs to the crows and tigers, a group of brush-footed butterflies.
Its caterpillars eat many kinds of plants, including fig trees.
There are several races of it, and one of them lives in Australia.
Most asked questions about Double-branded crow butterfly
?How can you tell the double-branded crow from the common crow?
The male double-branded crow has two marks on each front wing, while the common crow has only one.
?Where does the double-branded crow live?
In South and Southeast Asia, Taiwan and northern Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euploea sylvester
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1793
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Double-branded crow, Two-brand crow
Where the facts come from
- Euploea sylvester (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 BrijeshPookkottur. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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