Common cruiser
The common cruiser is a tropical butterfly from the forests of South and Southeast Asia. The male is bright orange-yellow with black zigzag lines. The female looks totally different: dull brown with a wide white band across her wings.
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Fun facts
It looks different in the wet season and the dry season.
Dry-season butterflies are smaller and have much shorter tails on their back wings.
Its back wings have small round eyespots.
Male and female look so different that you might think they are two kinds of butterfly.
Most asked questions about Common cruiser
?Where does the common cruiser live?
In tropical forests in South and Southeast Asia.
?Why do male and female cruisers look different?
The male is bright orange-yellow, while the female is brown with a white band. Many butterflies have boys and girls that look different.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Vindula erota
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Vindula erota (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 Tamaghna Sengupta. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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