Iberian marbled white
Melanargia lachesis
The Iberian marbled white is a white butterfly with a pattern of black lines and patches, like a chessboard drawn by hand. It lives in Spain, Portugal and the south of France. It loves dry, flowery meadows.
Lives in
Spain, Portugal and southern France, in dry flowery meadows
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The butterflies visit flowers in meadows. The caterpillars eat different kinds of grass.
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)
Iberian marbled white about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Each front wing is about 2.5 to 2.8 centimetres long.
2
It is lighter and whiter than its cousin, the marbled white.
3
Some of these butterflies are creamy yellow instead of chalky white.
4
It flies once a year, from June to August, and lives from low plains up to 1,600 metres high in the hills.
you asked
Most asked questions about Iberian marbled white
?Where does the Iberian marbled white live?
In Spain, Portugal and southern France, in dry meadows full of flowers.
?What do Iberian marbled white caterpillars eat?
They eat different kinds of grass.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Melanargia lachesis
- Named by
- Hübner
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Melanargia lachesis (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 Eric SYLVESTRE. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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