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title: "Common Baron"
description: "Euthalia aconthea — Owady i pająki. Euthalia aconthea, the common baron, often called simply baron, is a medium-sized nymphalid butterfly native to Sri Lanka, India and southeast Asia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/common-baron
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Common Baron

> Euthalia aconthea — Owady i pająki. Euthalia aconthea, the common baron, often called simply baron, is a medium-sized nymphalid butterfly native to Sri Lanka, India and southeast Asia.

- Scientific name: *Euthalia aconthea*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 8580
- Wikidata: [Q565470](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q565470)
- iNaturalist taxon: [51586](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/51586)

## Names

- en: Common Baron
- es: Barón

## Countries with the most observations

IN (4795), SG (600), HK (426), ID (248), LK (179), TH (158), MY (97), BD (74), KH (66), VN (61), MM (51), CN (28)

## Summary

Euthalia aconthea, the common baron, often called simply baron, is a medium-sized nymphalid butterfly native to Sri Lanka, India and southeast Asia. It flies with stiff wing beats and often glides. The wing is not flapped very far below the horizontal.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthalia_aconthea

## Photo

![Common Baron](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-baron/medium.jpg)

Photo: Min Khant Naing · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145192143

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-baron?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).