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Prefectural Natural Monument
Insects
Chequered Skipper (Takane subspecies)
Carterocephalus palaemon
The Takane chequered skipper is a small skipper with yellow spots on dark brown wings, found in Japan only in alpine meadows and regarded as a relict from the ice age. Adults appear briefly in summer, visiting flowers for nectar. Its restricted habitat in Nagano is a Natural Monument.
- Scientific name
- Carterocephalus palaemon
- Group
- Insects
- Prefectures
- Nagano
- 日本語
- タカネキマダラセセリ
- 简体中文
- 花弄蝶
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The Chequered Skipper (Takane subspecies) is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Nagano.
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