Chinese name: tail tiger swallowtail Latin name: luehdorfia longicaudata (lee, 1944) Section: Papilionidae papilionodae Is: Tiger Swallowtails are luehdorfia (cruger, 1878) Status: the world's more one of rare butterflies insects. Distribution: Shaanxi, Sichuan and Hubei. Endemic to China. The species included: China's State Forestry Administration, "national key protected wild animal list" Host: Aristolochiaceae in Saruma is (saruma) of Saruma (s.henryioliv.). Name: the species and the Hua Hufeng butterfly (l.chinensis) is very similar, but the forewings and hind wings with a black cross in Hua Hufeng butterflies than wide, leaving the yellow part of the very narrow, particularly evident in the next room; special After the wing is suddenly not only a long tail, and tiger butterfly is more than any one of a long, long-tailed tiger swallowtail butterfly, it said.
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Host plants
Saruma saruma henryioli Aristolochiaceae in Saruma genus, endemic to China Distribution: Hubei: Wufeng, Fang County, all county, Yun West, Xingshan, Shennongjia. Sichuan: Nanchuan. Henan: Haven of Hope, Romer, Luan River, Nanzhao, Xixia, mall. Jiangxi: Wugongshan. Gansu: Tianshui, Hui County, Kang. Shaanxi: Taibai Mountain, south five. Guizhou: Hing Yan, Wangmo, Zhenning. Lobular Saruma asarum ichangense cycheng et csyang Asarum species, with similar soil called Asarum. Rhizome short, with most slender root. Blade heart-shaped or oval, thin-shaped heart-shaped, top obtuse or acute angle. Above the main vein on both sides with white cloud patches, following the green, thin purple. Perianth tube spherical, throat constriction, membrane ring narrow wall with grid mesh, the base of the mastoid lobes fold; stamen filaments very short; Style 6, from the raw, raw column head. Distribution: Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan and other provinces.
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Found history
Long-tailed tiger swallowtail discovery and was made public, has a long historical process. In 1944, China's famous butterfly expert Professor Li Chuanlong ongoing 9th annual travel butterflies flutter, the way to the Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi, crossing the mountains and peaks to climb towards the summit, the day went to look up to see two mountains between the depths of the forest, accidentally taken to a height slightly larger, darker color of the tiger swallowtail butterfly, mating had been identified as Cidie. Professor Lee back from its ventral side of an extension of students with a long knife-like mating derivatives to determine which is clearly different from the other three tiger swallowtail, certainly a new species. Unfortunately, it suddenly after the end of the two wings are broken, do not know they are thick, the thin, long or short. Because of this butterfly are very few, Professor Lee then taken to a failure to achieve the desire. As a scientist, his research must faithfully reflect the objective laws of nature, this new butterfly species of the scientific evidence was incomplete, the back burner. 37 years later, in order to clarify this question, Professor Lee and in 1981 came to explore the origin. Accompanied by friends in the great assistance, after 20 days of searching catch, and finally caught a left rear wing end of the preservation of a sudden the Cidie well, filled up the missing information, and the new butterfly long-tailed tiger swallowtail be named. In 1981, Professor Lee was invited to attend the 28th Annual Meeting of Japan Society of Lepidoptera, a special lecture, it will be released this new species of the world, causing the participants butterfly faithful attention. Daily newspapers, radio and television stations have been reported. 13 years later, Professor Zhou Yao, "China butterfly records," turn it too Baihu Feng named butterfly luehdorfia taibai chou, because Professor Zhou Yao that the species is not formally published. This is the academic dispute, we do not have a closer look, this is only the tiger swallowtail butterfly species found in the extraordinary experience.
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Morphology
长尾虎凤蝶 形态特征
长尾虎凤蝶 形态特征
长尾虎凤蝶 形态特征
Adult wingspan 55 ~ 60 mm. Black body is yellow-white hair. Wings yellow. There are seven upper wing black horizontal band, in which the outer edge of the base 2, 4 and area of a wide black belt directly to the back edge and the outer edge of broadband embedded with a short yellow stripe (outside ) and a significant non-obvious like the yellow horizontal line (the inside). Jagged edge of hind wing, in the tooth cavity with a yellow crescent-shaped markings on the outside of the crescent-shaped spots corresponding mosaic of black and yellow and white edges; wings of the upper half there are three black belt, in which the base 1 inner edge of broad and oblique straight Dexia hip angle; in the district after a crescent-shaped red spots, redness is not very clear lateral columns of blue spots; hip angle red, blue and black spots on the composition of . Sudden long tail. Wings similar negative and positive.
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Habits
长尾虎凤蝶 生活习性
Biology Long-tailed tiger swallowtail butterfly larvae eating the Saruma plants in protected areas in Shaanxi Qinling Mountain Taibai altitude 1000 - 1600 m of the creek valley forest, wet places were small pieces of distribution. Experiments show that: hungry larvae can be fed Asarum (asarum) and Aristolochia (aristolochia) plants, and successfully enter the pupal stage; but any impact on the adult stage, pending further study. (1) annual life cycle and life history: one generation a year, eggs in late April - May in mid-larval stage in early May - July late adult stage in late April-May late pupal stage in early July - In early May the following year; (2) mating and nesting habits: adults flying in the air when mating. Cidie host plants to lay eggs in the surface of leaf, usually 20 to 30 eggs, egg yield, showed a rectangular or rows. (3) there is a cluster of early hatched larvae, head-lined in the same direction; scattered damage after age 5. (4) mature larva in the host plant branches, cliffs joints, litter or under bark cracks in the winter pupation. County, Shaanxi Province in recent years has been for weeks a large number of semi-artificial breeding.
