Butterflies are common insects around us, and every year when flowers bloom, beautiful butterflies dance among the flowers, and are the beautiful flower spirits in nature. Beautiful butterflies appear in poetry, songs, film and television works, and works of art, and are deeply loved by people.
Butterflies belong to the order Insecta, Lepidoptera; there are more than 14,000 species in the world and 1,200 in China.
So, in addition to the common common butterflies, what are the rare butterfly varieties in China?
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > golden-spotted beaked butterfly</h1>
Golden-spotted beaked phoenix butterfly, known as the "queen of butterflies", is a rare butterfly species in the world, but also a unique butterfly species in China, distributed in Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Hainan and other places, is China's "national butterfly". Protected animals at the national level.
The golden-spotted beaked butterfly belongs to the alpine species and lives in evergreen broad-leaved forests at an altitude of about 1000 meters, and the "male-female ratio" of this butterfly is as high as 1:50 to 200, and the female butterfly is extremely rare. The original disparity between her androgynous ratios, coupled with the narrowness of the habitat and the overfishing and heavy gold of specimen collectors, now this butterfly is extremely rare.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Apollo butterfly</h1>
Apollo butterfly is the largest species in the family Butterfly family, is also an alpine species, and is extremely hardy, can live on the snowy mountains, distributed in China's Xinjiang region; it belongs to the national second-level protected animal.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > two-tailed brown butterfly</h1>
The double-tailed brown butterfly was first discovered in the 1930s by a Japanese mountaineering team in western Yunnan, China; it is one of the most rare butterflies in the world and a butterfly species endemic to China. National second-level protected animals.
The two-tailed brown butterfly is a temperate animal that lives in alpine areas at an altitude of 2,000 meters, and when the sun is shining strongly, it dances in the trees, and once it is obscured by dark clouds or at night, it disappears.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > a golden-banded beaked butterfly</h1>
The morphology of this species is very similar to that of the golden-spotted beaked phoenix butterfly, except for the golden yellow spots on the hindwing wings that are banded, so it is also known as the golden-beaked phoenix butterfly. This species has been included in the List of Wild Animals under National Key Protection by the State Forestry Administration of China.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > golden-winged butterfly</h1>
The golden butterfly is the "longevity champion" among butterflies, and the adult period of ordinary butterflies is only 10-15 days, while the golden butterfly can live for at least one month. This species has been included in the List of Wild Animals under National Key Protection by the State Forestry Administration of China.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > three-tailed brown butterfly</h1>
Three-tailed brown phoenix butterfly is a unique butterfly species in China, living in the alpine area above 2000 meters above sea level, the three-tailed brown phoenix butterfly is very similar to the double-tailed brown phoenix butterfly, the most obvious difference is that the species has 3 tail processes in the hindwing, no finger-shaped process; the double-tailed brown phoenix butterfly has 2 tail processes and 1 finger-like process.
National second-level protected animals.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Chinese tiger butterfly</h1>
The Chinese tiger butterfly is a wild butterfly unique to China, known as the "national butterfly" by entomologists; the emblem of the Butterfly Branch of the Chinese Insect Society. Wildlife under national second-level protection.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
The reasons for the gradual decline of these butterflies are similar, such as habitat destruction, changes in the natural environment, and the main reason is because of indiscriminate hunting.
Because things are rare and expensive, specimen collectors are frantically collecting these rare species around the world, demanding heavy gold, and people have extended their magic grasp to these natural spirits for profit; a golden-spotted beaked phoenix butterfly has been called out for a high price of 100,000 US dollars.
Legal Trivia: Article 341 of the Criminal Law stipulates that whoever illegally hunts or kills rare or endangered wild animals under key national protection, or illegally acquires, transports or sells rare or endangered wild animals under key national protection and their products, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also be fined, and if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined, and if the circumstances are particularly serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, and shall also be fined or have his property confiscated.