Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Seychelles Crow (Euploea mitra), recorded as Endangered
Seychelles Crow (Euploea mitra). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

Seychelles Crow

Euploea mitra

Seychelles Crow is endemic to the Seychelles, where it is only found on the islands of Mahe and Silhouette.

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Euploea mitra
Taxonomy
Insecta · Lepidoptera · Nymphalidae · Euploea

The brush-footed butterfly

Brush-footed butterflies hold the first pair of legs reduced. The family includes fritillaries, admirals, and crows.

Moths and butterflies have scaled wings and a four-stage life: egg, caterpillar, pupa, adult. Most named species are known from a handful of specimens and a type locality.

Range and habitat

It is endemic to the Seychelles, where it is only found on the islands of Mahe and Silhouette.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Diet

The adult is what most collections hold. The larva — the feeding stage — is often undescribed for the rarest names.

Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.

In crisis

Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.

Seychelles Crow is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Seychelles Crow — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q974470. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is Seychelles Crow?
It is endemic to the Seychelles, where it is only found on the islands of Mahe and Silhouette.
What is the conservation status of Seychelles Crow?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Euploea mitra. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Seychelles Crow live?
It is endemic to the Seychelles, where it is only found on the islands of Mahe and Silhouette.
Why is Seychelles Crow in crisis?
Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Euploea mitra?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Seychelles Crow a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.