Two-tailed pasha
The two-tailed pasha is a big, fast butterfly with dark brown wings edged in bright orange. Each back wing has two little tails. Underneath, its wings look like a colourful mosaic of brown, red and grey patches outlined in white.
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Fun facts
It is the only butterfly of its kind, the Charaxes group, that lives in Europe.
Butterflies born in spring are smaller, and their tails curve towards each other like a pincer.
It is so fond of fermenting fruit that people can lure it with a little wine.
It is a fast flyer and guards its own patch, often on the top of a hill.
The females are bigger than the males, and in Morocco they grow especially large.
Most asked questions about Two-tailed pasha
?How big is the two-tailed pasha?
Males have wings about 76 to 83 millimetres across, and females are even bigger.
?Where does the two-tailed pasha live?
Around the Mediterranean, from Portugal and Spain to Greece, Turkey and North Africa.
?What does the two-tailed pasha eat?
The butterflies drink juice from overripe, fermenting fruit.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Charaxes jasius
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Charaxes jasius (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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