Common crow
Euploea core (Cramer, 1780)
Status not recordedbutterflies and moths
The common crow (Euploea core) is a species in the family Nymphalidae, order Lepidoptera.
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Quick facts about the common crow
- Weight
- Not recorded
- Length
- Not recorded
- Wingspan
- 7.33 cm – 9.17 cm
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- forest
- Young per litter or clutch
- Not recorded
- On the wing
- All year
- Generations a year
- Several
- Larval food plants
- Apocynaceae family
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
How big is the common crow?
Where does the common crow live?
Not recorded
Where has it been introduced?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the common crow as introduced in 1 country.
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 common crow 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 common crow classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classInsecta
- orderLepidoptera
- familyNymphalidae
- genusEuploea
- SpeciesEuploea core (Cramer, 1780)
Synonyms Chirosa fuscosa, Crastia binghami, Crastia prunosa, Crastia tonkinensis, Danais amymone, Danais corinna, Euploea andamanensis, Euploea angasi, Euploea angasii, Euploea bauermanni, Euploea bumila, Euploea charox, Euploea core amymone, Euploea core corinna, Euploea core garampiana, Euploea core godartii, Euploea defigurata, Euploea dominans, Euploea euclus, Euploea felderi, Euploea ferrari, Euploea godartii, Euploea hadrumaia, Euploea kalaona, Euploea kinbergi, Euploea layardi, Euploea lorquinii, Euploea recussa, Euploea reginae, Euploea siamensis, Euploea simulatrix, Euploea subdita, Euploea tersatica, Euploea tonkinensis, Papilio core
Other names and names in other languages (13)
- Common Indian crowEnglish
- কাওয়াBangla
- Gewöhnlicher KrähenfalterGerman
- Mariposa Cuervo ComúnSpanish
- Papillon corbeau communFrench
- Farfalla corvo comuneItalian
- ガランピマダラJapanese
- हबशीMarathi
- வெண்புள்ளிக் கருப்பன்Tamil
- ผีเสื้อจรกาหนอนยี่โถThai
- 幻紫斑蝶Chinese
- ガランピルリマダラJapanese
- コレルリマダラJapanese
Relatives of the common crow
Other species in the same genus Euploea.
Striped blue crow
Euploea mulciber
Double-branded crow
Euploea sylvester
Biak dark crow
Euploea albicosta
Long-branded blue crow
Euploea algea
Blue spotted crow
Euploea midamus
Sulawesi pied crow
Euploea eupator
CompareCommon crow vs Striped blue crowCommon crow vs Double-branded crowCommon crow vs Biak dark crowCommon crow vs Long-branded blue crow
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the common crow?
An adult common crow has a wingspan of 7.33 cm – 9.17 cm, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Is the common crow an invasive species?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the common crow as introduced in 1 country: Denmark, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.
What kind of animal is the common crow?
The common crow (Euploea core) belongs to the family Nymphalidae in the order Lepidoptera.
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