Common four-ring
The common four-ring is a small greyish-brown butterfly with eyespots ringed in yellow. Under each back wing it usually has four little eyespots in a curve. That is how it got its name.
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Fun facts
The big eyespot near the tip of each front wing has two pupils, like a double eye.
Butterflies of the dry season are paler, and their back wing eyespots can be tiny or missing.
Its green caterpillar is about 25 millimetres long and has two little tails pointing backwards.
Most asked questions about Common four-ring
?Why is it called the four-ring?
Because the underside of each back wing usually has four small ringed eyespots.
?How big is the common four-ring?
Its wingspan is about 40 to 43 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ypthima huebneri
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Common fourring
Where the facts come from
- Ypthima huebneri (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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