Huxiang Natural Calendar 丨 Butterfly Fly (6) Liang Zhuhua butterfly, what kind of butterfly
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"The green grass and green flowers bloom, and the colorful butterflies both linger for a long time."
Love can't be loved, hate is separated, and finally the butterflies fly in pairs. The moving story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai has been circulated in the folk for more than 2,000 years and is known as the song of love through the ages.
There are more than 1,000 kinds of butterflies in China, which one is "transformed" into Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai?
In 1996, the Butterfly Branch of the Entomological Society of China published information through the magazine "Butterfly of China" that "Liang Zhu Butterfly" belonged to the butterfly family.
Butterfly is a southern butterfly species, because they often male and female butterflies dance up and down, shadow and shadow, Guangdong, Yunnan and other places folk called "Liang Zhu butterfly", often born in the south of the Yangtze River, Guangdong, Yunnan area is more common, Jiangsu, Zhejiang area is also distributed.
(Female butterfly.) ）
(Butterfly male.) )
The English name for the butterfly is "Papilio memnon", and the suffix "memnon" is the king of Ethiopia in Greek mythology, which is enough to show the grace and magnificence of this butterfly.
When spreading its wings naturally, the butterfly can reach a width of up to 18 cm, which can cover the palm of one hand, which is very "huge" in the butterfly family.
Although the body is large, it does not affect its sensitivity in the slightest, and it is fast when flying, but it is light and beautiful when landing on flowers.
In nature, the bright colors and dancing postures of butterflies give people a beautiful feeling of freedom, so it has also become a symbol of freedom and happiness.
Looking at the appearance of the beautiful phoenix butterfly in the flowers, did you also see the shadows of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai?
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Large butterflies. Males have no tailed process, are female multitypes, and have a caudal type. The male has a dark blue luster on the back of the wings, dark red spots at the base of the middle chamber of the forewings, blue-gray stripes on the outer sides of the middle and outer wings, and blue-gray radial stripes on the outer 2/3 of the hindwings. The erythema at the base of the ventral front wing is clear, with black inter-vein and medial stripes; the base of the hindwing has crimson spots, the outer midfield has a band of blue-gray black spots, and the hip area has dark spots. Female butterfly (tailless): greyish brown wings with black veins, inter-veined and middle ventricular striae, with red spots at the base of the middle chamber; the hindwings are large white spots, and the outer edge is a column of black spots. Ventral markings such as the dorsal surface, erythema of the forewings and white spots of the hindwings are more developed. Female butterfly (with tail type): the wing color is the same as the tailless type, the hindwing white spots are small and reddish, the outer edge is recessed with light red; the ventral surface is similar to the back, and the erythema is more developed. Female butterfly (all black type): The whole resembles a male butterfly, but the color is dull, and the red spots at the base of the back of the forewing are clear.
Over a generation, adult worms can be seen all year round. The larvae host are plants such as grapefruit, lemon, and citrus in the family Rubiaceae.
It is distributed in a large area south of the Qinling Mountains. It is also found in the South Asian subcontinent, Indochina Peninsula, Malay Peninsula, Malay Archipelago, Philippine Archipelago, southern Japanese Archipelago and other places.
Text, voice-over / Peng Kexin Photo / Zhang Jingming Design / Cao Shuqin Think Tank / Xiao Wei Coordinator / Zhou Yuegui
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[Source: Hunan Daily· New Hunan Client]