Knight
Lebadea martha
The knight is a butterfly from the warm forests of Asia. It has a grand name, like a brave knight from a fairy tale. It lives on the mainland and on many tropical islands.
Lives in
Tropical and subtropical Asia, from Myanmar and Cambodia to Borneo, Sumatra and Singapore
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, it sips sweet liquid food through a long tongue that it can roll up.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Knight about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Scientists divide it into twelve slightly different forms, many of them living on different islands.
2
One of these forms lives in Singapore, a city on a small island.
3
It belongs to the brush-footed butterflies. Their front legs are tiny, so they seem to stand on only four legs.
you asked
Most asked questions about Knight
?Where does the knight butterfly live?
In warm parts of Asia, for example in Myanmar, Cambodia, Borneo, Sumatra and Singapore.
?Is the knight butterfly dangerous?
No. It is a harmless butterfly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lebadea martha
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Lebadea martha (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 Lsadonkey. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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