Japanese luehdorfia
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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Japanese luehdorfias have tail-like projections on their hind wings.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Japanese luehdorfia
- Scientific name
- Luehdorfia japonica
- Japanese name
- ギフチョウ
- Group
- Insects
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Genus
- Luehdorfia
A butterfly of bright, mixed woodlands in the countryside hills of Honshu. It appears in early spring.
A small swallowtail with black and yellow stripes. Its hind wings have red, orange and blue markings.
It mainly sips nectar from purple and pink flowers. Its caterpillars grow by eating a plant called wild ginger (kan-aoi).
How the Japanese luehdorfia lives
They fly around bright woodland edges. Males tend to gather on mountain ridges.
京都府Basic data
- Diet
- Flower nectar
- Range
- Honshu
- Conservation status in Japan
- Vulnerable (VU)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Red List 2020
Where the Japanese luehdorfia has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ギフチョウ
- 简体中文
- 日本虎凤蝶
- 繁體中文
- 日本虎鳳蝶
- हिन्दी
- लोएहडोर्फीा जपोनिका
- Tiếng Việt
- Japanese Luehdorfia
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 京都府 — 京都府レッドデータブック2015 ギフチョウChecked: 2026-11-03
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Red List 2020Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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