Biology:Gonepteryx maxima

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Gonepteryx maxima
Rhopalocera nihonica BHL22784748.jpg
Gonepteryx maxima in Rhopalocera nihonica
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Gonepteryx
Species:
G. maxima
Binomial name
Gonepteryx maxima
Butler, 1885

Gonepteryx maxima is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1885. It is found from north-eastern China to Korea, Japan , the Russian Far East (Amur, Ussuri) and Japan .[1] The habitat consists of steppe and forest-steppe areas.

Adults are on wing from the end of July to September. Adults overwinter and fly again from May to June.

The larvae feed on Rhamnus ussuriensis.[2]

Subspecies

  • Gonepteryx maxima maxima
  • Gonepteryx maxima amurensis Graeser, 1888 (Amur, Ussuri)

References

  1. Gonepteryx at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Gonepteryx maxima Butler, 1885 at Russian Insects

Wikidata ☰ Q13862202 entry