A butterfly of the family Pieridae in the order Lepidoptera. It is a rather large butterfly with wings that span about 6.5 cm and are slightly vertically long. Its Japanese name comes from the fine wave pattern on the underside. It is widely distributed from India to Southeast Asia and Australia, and in Japan, it lives in the Yaeyama Islands. It has long been recorded as a vagrant in western Kyushu. It was not uncommon for females that landed in Kyushu or western Japan as vagrants after a typhoon to cause a temporary outbreak if they happened to encounter a food plant, but in recent years, cases of outbreaks on the mainland have become rare, possibly due to the decline in the cultivation of hubuso and ebistugusa in fields as ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine. Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information |
鱗翅目シロチョウ科のチョウ。やや大型のシロチョウで,開張は6.5cm内外,翅はやや縦長。和名は裏面の細かな波模様から名付けられた。インドから東南アジア,オーストラリアにかけて広く分布し,日本では八重山列島にすむ。昔から九州西部に迷チョウとしての記録が多い。また,台風の後などに迷チョウとして九州や西日本に上陸した雌が,たまたま食草に遭遇すれば一時的大発生に至ることもまれではなかったが,近年は漢方薬の原料としてハブソウ,エビスグサを畑で栽培することが減ったためか,本土発生の例がまれとなった。
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