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• Bibasis aquilina chrysaeglia
• Aporia crataegi adherbal

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Bibasis aquilina chrysaeglia Butler

• Taxonomy: Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae.

• Body size: mature laevae ca. 40 mm long; adalts ca. 40 mm (wingspan).

• Host: Kalopanax pictus Nakai.

• Distribution: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Tsushima, Japan.

• Damage:

• Life cycle: There is one generation par year. Just after the coming into leaf of host tree in May, Larvae crowl from the ground to leaves, and feed in the concealment by webbing leaves together. Larva matures during the end of June to early July, and pupates in its concealment during the middle to the end of July. Adalts emerge from the end of July to early Audust, and lay eggs individually on relatively young leaves. Hatched larvae feed on leaves in the concealments in the same way to the mature laevae, then cross winter in the second inster. Butterflies are frequently found in the absence of host tree. Males 道路や崖などに吸水にくる。 Females visit flowers and feed on nectar. They always close their wings, when they stop.

An adalt of B. aquilina	A pupa of An adalt of B. aquilina
A mature larva of B. aquilina	A larval nest of B. aquilina

Aporia crataegi adherbal Fruhstorfer

Blackveined white

• Taxonomy: Lepodoptera, Pieridae.

• Body size: mature larvae ca. 40 mm long; adalts ca. 70 mm (wingspan).

• Hosts: Malus halliana Koehne, Malus domestica Borkh., Prunus ssiori Fr. Schm., Prunus sargentii Rehder, Prunus padus Linn., and the other Rosaceae.

• Distribution: Hokkaido, Sakhalin, North Korea, North China, Europe.

• Damage: Larvae feed on leaves.

• Life cycle: There is one generation par year.

A mature larva of A. crataegi	A pupa of A. crataegi
Winter-crossing larvae of A. crataegi	An adalt of A. crataegi

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