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Brown Playboy

Deudorix antalus (Hopffer, 1855)

Status not recordedbutterflies and moths

The brown playboy (Deudorix antalus) is a species in the family Lycaenidae, order Lepidoptera.

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Quick facts about the brown playboy

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Wingspan
2.6 cm – 3.83 cm
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
On the wing
All year
Larval food plants
Fabaceae family
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

How big is the brown playboy?

BROWN PLAYBOY · WINGSPAN 3.83 CMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 3.83 cm, the recorded maximum wingspan of the brown playboy is about 2.3% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does the brown playboy live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the brown playboy as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Mauritius

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the brown playboy endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the brown playboy classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyLycaenidae
  6. genusDeudorix
  7. SpeciesDeudorix antalus (Hopffer, 1855)

Synonyms Dipsas antalus, Virachola antalus

Other names and names in other languages (1)
  • Bruin-spelertjieAfrikaans

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the brown playboy

Other species in the same genus Deudorix.

Cornelian

Deudorix epijarbas

LycaenidaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the brown playboy?

An adult brown playboy has a wingspan of 2.6 cm – 3.83 cm, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the brown playboy an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the brown playboy as introduced in 1 country: Mauritius, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the brown playboy?

The brown playboy (Deudorix antalus) belongs to the family Lycaenidae in the order Lepidoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Brown Playboy (Deudorix antalus). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/brown-playboy

MLA

“Brown Playboy (Deudorix antalus).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/brown-playboy.

BibTeX
@misc{brown_playboy_2026,
  title = {Brown Playboy (Deudorix antalus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/brown-playboy},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}