"Butterfly yellow in August, double flying West Garden grass", early autumn is still the activity season of butterflies. There are not many species of butterflies in the north, and about 20 species are common in Qingdao, which belong to 6 families, including the pink butterfly family, the butterfly family, the butterfly family, the eye butterfly family, the gray butterfly family and the butterfly family.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >pternidae</h1>
Medium size, often white, yellow as the base tone, decorated with black, red, yellow and other color spots, the forewings are triangular, the hindwings are oval, the wing surface is powdered, the style is beautiful and simple.
Fig. 1 Butterfly, female
Fig. 2 Butterfly, left female and right male
Figure 3 Cloud pink butterfly
Figure 4 East Asian bean flour butterfly
There are three main species: Vegetable Powder Butterfly/Pieris rapae, Cloud Powder Butterfly/Pontia daplidice, and East Asian Bean Powder Butterfly/Colias poliographus. The butterfly is the most common, female yellow-white, male milky white, both have black spots; cloud powder butterfly is less, with significant dark green spots on the back of the wings; East Asian bean powder butterfly is the least, yellow or pale yellow, with black spots, and 1 orange spot on the hindwing. It is said that the yellow or orange pink butterfly in Shandong is most likely to be the East Asian bean powder butterfly, and the classification is still controversial, and this name is temporarily used.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > Butterfly family</h1>
Medium to large, brilliant colors, beautiful shapes. The anterior and posterior wings are triangular , the outer edge is wavy , and most species of hindwing have slender caudal protrusions , from which the name " butterfly " is derived.
Fig. 5 Citrus butterfly
Fig. 6 Ribbon butterfly, male
Fig. 7 Ribbon butterfly, female
The most common is the citrus butterfly/Papilio xuthus, the larvae mainly harm the plants of the family Rubiaceae, citrus in the south and pepper in the north, hence the name. Wing masks are intricately yellow-white spots, spring and summer type II, spring type light color and summer type dark color. It is followed by ribbon butterfly/Sericinus montelus, hermaphroditic, with the male butterfly wing surface being predominantly white with black and red stripes, and the female wing surface covered with black-brown markings. Its tail protrusion is slender like a streamer, and its appearance is excellent, which is quite popular with specimen collectors.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > Butterfly family</h1>
Small to medium-sized, rich in color and in different shapes. The wing shape varies greatly, with the forewings mostly triangular, the hindwings nearly rounded or nearly triangular, and some species have jagged edges.
Fig. 8 Yellow hook butterfly
Fig. 9 Yellow hook butterfly
Figure 10 Little red butterfly
Fig. 11 Leopard butterfly, female
Fig. 12 Leopard butterfly, male
The 3 most common, the Yellow Hook Butterfly/Polygonia c-aureum, the Little Red Butterfly/Vanessa cardui, and the Leopard Butterfly/Argynnis hyperbius. The yellow hook butterfly is a widespread species that can be found everywhere, the "yellow hook" is actually a white hook, that is, a silvery-white L stripe in the center of the back of the hindwing; the little red butterfly is brightly colored, the wing end is black, and there are obvious white spots; the male butterfly is male and female, the wing surface is reddish yellow, covered with black leopard spots, and the female forewing is purple-black at the front of the wing, and has a wide white oblique band.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="33" > ophthalmopodidae</h1>
Small to medium sized. The wings are short and broad, usually dull in color, mostly gray-brown, yellowish-brown, or black-brown, and most species have prominent eye-like spots.
Figure 13 Rice-browed butterfly
Figure 14 Sedge-eyed butterfly
Fig. 15 Sedge-eyed butterfly
Fig. 16 Densely striped butterfly
Rare in the city, there are more suburban countryside, there are 3 species introduced, rice eyebrow eye butterfly / Mycalesis gotama, sedge eye butterfly / Coenonympha oedippus and densely striped quercus butterfly / Ypthima multistriata. These several eye spots vary in size and arrangement, but they are all middle dots, and there are blue-black and yellow rings on the periphery, and the overall style is consistent. The eye spots are on the reverse side of the wing, and the front is only faintly visible, so that when the wings stand up, they can clearly appreciate the unique charm of the eye butterfly.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="44" > gray butterfly</h1> family
Small, wingspan generally does not exceed 5cm. The forewings are mostly triangular , the hindwings are nearly ovoid , the color and markings on the front and back of the two wings are distinct , and some species have caudal protrusions and eye spots.
Figure 17 Blue-gray butterfly
Fig. 18 Sorrel grey butterfly
Fig. 19 Glass grey butterfly
Figure 20 Bright gray butterfly
Figure 21 Red gray butterfly
There are 5 common species, blue gray butterfly/Everes argiades, sorrel grey butterfly/Pseudozizeeria maha, glass gray butterfly/Celastrina argiolus, bright gray butterfly/Lampides boeticus, and red gray butterfly/Lycaena phlaeas. The red gray butterfly is the most colorful, slightly larger; the blue gray butterfly and the bright gray butterfly have a tail process, the former has orange spots on the hindwings, the latter does not; the sorrel gray butterfly and the glass gray butterfly have no tail process, and the black spots are different in size and density. Note that only the compound eyes of the sorreled grey butterfly are brown, and the rest are black.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="52" > Pterophoridae</h1>
Medium to small, stubby, densely scaled, triangular forewings, ovoid hindwings, dark black or tan, a few species are yellow or white. The ugliest of course is at the end, and the members of this family generally look like moths...
Fig. 22 Straight-striped rice butterfly
Fig. 23 Butterfly in the hidden valley
In the city, you can generally encounter 2 kinds, straight-grained rice butterfly /Parara Guttata and hidden grain butterfly/Pelopidas mathias, like loofah or lentil bushes to visit flowers, agile movements, suddenly coming and going, not easy to capture. Both of these are gray-headed earth faces and skull-eyebrow rat eyes, which at first glance are similar, and look closely at Fang Zhiduan: the former has 4 white transparent spots arranged in a straight line, and the spots on the latter hindwings are in the style of the five-star red flag (females, males only have one or two spots).
The above total of 18 species, only a small part of the Qingdao butterfly species, but limited to the length and insight of the brick family, can only introduce so much, except for Figure 6, are all taken by the brick family. Over。