Quaker
The Quaker is a small butterfly from the blues family. On top it is dark purplish brown, and underneath it is white with fine brown lines and black dots. It changes its look with the seasons.
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Fun facts
In the dry season it gets a big snow-white spot on each front wing, but in the wet season it is darker all over.
In very dry places, the markings under its wings can fade away completely.
There are three kinds of Quaker, living in north-east India and Myanmar, in south India and Sri Lanka, and on the Andaman Islands.
Most asked questions about Quaker
?What does the Quaker butterfly look like?
It is small, dark purplish brown on top and white underneath, with tiny dark dots and lines.
?What does the Quaker caterpillar eat?
Leaves of ebony trees and of small bushes called Glycosmis.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neopithecops zalmora
- Named by
- Butler, 1870
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Neopithecops zalmora (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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