Giant redeye
The giant redeye is a big skipper butterfly from India and Sri Lanka. Its wings are dark chocolate brown with bright yellow, see-through square spots. Its caterpillars grow up on palm trees.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar wears a shaggy coat made of pure wax, which rubs off easily when you touch it.
Under the wax coat, the caterpillar is greyish-white with a few yellowish spots.
The male has a furry patch of pale hair on the underside of each front wing.
With its wings spread it can be up to about 8 centimetres wide, which is big for a skipper.
Most asked questions about Giant redeye
?What does the giant redeye eat?
Its caterpillars feed on palms, like coconut palms and rattan canes.
?How big is the giant redeye?
Its wings are about 6.5 to 8 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gangara thyrsis
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Gangara thyrsis (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 School of Ecology and Conservation, UAS Bangalore, India <kchandra58 at yahoo.co.in>. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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