Small Luehdorfia Butterfly
ヒメギフチョウ · Himegifuchou
Photo: H Pryer / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons
- Designated by
- Prefectural / Natural Monument
- Designation type
- Species
- Designated on
- March 7, 1986
- Prefectures
- Gunma
- Scientific name
- Luehdorfia puziloi
About the Luehdorfia puziloi
Luehdorfia puziloi is a yellow-and-black butterfly resembling the Japanese Luehdorfia. In Japan it occurs locally from Hokkaido to central Honshu. It appears in early spring in deciduous woods and grassland, and its larvae feed on wild ginger. It has one generation a year. In Gunma, the species itself is a prefectural Natural Monument; in Niigata, a habitat shared with Anthocharis cardamines is designated a prefectural Natural Monument.
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The Small Luehdorfia Butterfly is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Gunma.
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