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Prefectural Natural Monument
Insects
Moorland Clouded Yellow
Colias palaeno
The Moorland clouded yellow is an alpine butterfly with pale yellow or whitish wings, found in Honshu only in high-elevation dwarf-pine zones and meadows. Its caterpillars are known to feed on alpine plants such as cowberry. Habitats in Gunma and Nagano are Natural Monuments, and the species is sensitive to climate change.
- Scientific name
- Colias palaeno
- Group
- Insects
- Prefectures
- Gunma, Nagano
- 日本語
- ミヤマモンキチョウ
- 简体中文
- 北黄粉蝶
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The Moorland Clouded Yellow is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Gunma, Nagano.
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