Tropical swallowtail moth
The tropical swallowtail moth is a very big moth from the warm forests of South-East Asia. Its back wings end in long tails, like a swallow's tail. One of its names even calls it a butterfly.
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Fun facts
Its wings can be up to 16 centimetres from tip to tip, wider than a grown-up's hand.
Most moths of its family fly at night or at dusk, but this one is busy both day and night.
Sometimes huge numbers of them hatch at the same time and fly off together.
When the forest gets very dry, they turn up in cities, drawn to the bright lights.
Most asked questions about Tropical swallowtail moth
?Is the tropical swallowtail moth a butterfly?
No, it is a moth, even though one of its names is Laos brown butterfly.
?How big is the tropical swallowtail moth?
Its wingspan can reach 16 centimetres, so it is one of the bigger moths in Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lyssa zampa
- Named by
- Butler, 1869
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Uraniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Uraniidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Laos brown butterfly
Where the facts come from
- Lyssa zampa (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 CEphoto, Uwe Aranas. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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