Gonepteryx maxima

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.

Gonepteryx maxima
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Gonepteryx
Species:
G. maxima
Binomial name
Gonepteryx maxima
Butler, 1885

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)
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References

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


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