Titania's fritillary
Titania's fritillary is a small orange-brown butterfly with a chequered pattern of dark spots on top. Along the edges of its wings runs a row of little triangles and dots. Underneath, its back wings are mottled with purple and pearly brown spots.
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Fun facts
Each of its front wings is about 2 centimetres long.
It flies in meadows high in the mountains from June to August.
In Europe it lives in small separate spots, such as the Alps, southern Finland, Latvia and Poland.
Its other name is the purple bog fritillary, because of the purple on the underside of its wings.
Most asked questions about Titania's fritillary
?Where does Titania's fritillary live?
From central Europe to Siberia, often in mountain meadows.
?What does Titania's fritillary caterpillar eat?
Violets and other plants, such as bog bilberry and meadowsweet.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Boloria titania
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Purple bog fritillary
Where the facts come from
- Boloria titania (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 Jma69. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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