Baronet
The baronet is a butterfly from India and Sri Lanka. On top, its wings are a warm tawny yellow with bold black spots and bands. Underneath they are a deep reddish colour with little pink and white marks.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar is light green with purple spots and has a row of spines covered in fine green hair along each side.
Its pupa is short, green and decorated with golden spots and lines.
In Sri Lanka it lives only in a few grassy savannah areas inside one national park.
The male and female look the same on top, both tawny yellow.
Most asked questions about Baronet
?Where does the baronet butterfly live?
In India, from the lower Himalayas to the south, and in a small part of Sri Lanka.
?What does the baronet caterpillar eat?
It eats the leaves of sal trees and a kind of ebony tree.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euthalia nais
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Symphaedra (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 Uajith. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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