Turquoise Emperor

Doxocopa laurentia · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Nymphalidae

Also called: Cherubina emperor

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Turquoise Emperor
Photo: Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY

The Turquoise Emperor has a wingspan of about 75 mm (3 in).

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Males have brown upper wings with a wide metallic blue band, while females show a white band and an orange patch on the forewings.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

The wingspan reaches about 75 mm, roughly three inches.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Turquoise Emperor photo 3
Photo: Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY

Questions people ask

What does the Turquoise Emperor look like?

Males have brown upper wings with a broad metallic blue band; females have a white band and an orange patch on the forewings, and both sexes have yellowish or greyish undersides with black forewing markings.

Source: Wikipedia

How large is the Turquoise Emperor?

Its wingspan is about 75 mm, or three inches.

Source: Wikipedia

Same family (Nymphalidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxocopa_laurentia

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Text written 2026-10-22 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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