Banded scarlet tip
The banded scarlet tip is a small white butterfly with bright red tips on its front wings, edged in black. It looks like it dipped its wing tips in red paint. The females come in many colours, from orange to red.
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Fun facts
It belongs to the whites and yellows, the same family as the cabbage white.
The red patch on top of the wing is pinkish brown on the underside.
Females have black bands on their wings, and every female looks a little different.
Females are a tiny bit bigger than males.
Most asked questions about Banded scarlet tip
?Where does the banded scarlet tip live?
In Africa, Arabia, Iran, India and Sri Lanka.
?How big is the banded scarlet tip?
Its wings measure about 45 to 52 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Colotis danae
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Crimson tip, Scarlet tip
Where the facts come from
- Colotis danae (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 Firos AK. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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