Grey count
The grey count is a dark brown butterfly with a soft ash-grey band along the edges of its wings. The band starts thin at the tip of the front wing and gets wider and wider on the back wing. It lives in the forests of India and Southeast Asia.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar is green, with a row of light red spots that have blue middles. Its spines have yellow tips.
The pupa is green with gold-tipped points and a few big golden spots.
The female is paler than the male, and the underside of her wings is a bright yellowish brown.
The edges of its wings have tiny white fringes.
Most asked questions about Grey count
?Is the grey count dangerous?
No. It is a butterfly and cannot bite or sting.
?Where does the grey count live?
In forests of South and Southeast Asia, from the Himalayas to the Malay Peninsula.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tanaecia lepidea
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Tanaecia lepidea (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 Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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