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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?

COMMON CROW · WINGSPAN 9.17 CMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 9.17 cm, the recorded maximum wingspan of the common crow is about 5.4% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

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.

  1. Denmark

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?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyNymphalidae
  6. genusEuploea
  7. 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

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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.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-13. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Common crow (Euploea core). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/common-crow

MLA

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BibTeX
@misc{common_crow_2026,
  title = {Common crow (Euploea core)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/common-crow},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}