Northern Golden Orb Weaver is widely distributed in Japan south of the Amami Islands, southern China, Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea. Even in Tokunoshima, it can be seen widely from villages to forest edges.

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Males are about 1 cm long, but females are about 5 cm long, which is the largest nesting spider in Japan. The legs are long and the belly is long and slender.

 

The male is dark orange. Females have large mutations, but their chests are generally brown, their bellies have a dark background, and they often have yellow vertical stripes on their backs.

Occasionally, you can see individuals that are almost all black.

 

Papilio macilentus that is distributed in East Asia from Hokkaido to Kyushu.

It looks a little bigger than the swallowtail, and its front wings are elongated sideways, so its silhouette looks like a Chinese windmill.

 

The hind wings have a wavy outline and a crescent-shaped red crest to match the waves. It also features a long caudal process. The edges are slightly white and the front wings are lighter in black than the rear wings.

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大女郎蜘蛛は国内では奄美群島以南、中国南部、東南アジアおよびパプアニューギニアに広く分布します。

徳之島でも集落から林縁まで広く見られます。

雄は体長1センチあるかどうかですが、雌は5センチほどになり、巣を張るクモのなかでは日本最大です。

足は長く、腹が細長い。雄は濃いオレンジ色。雌は変異が大きいが総じて胸が褐色で、腹は黒っぽい地色で背中に黄色い縦縞が入る場合が多い。時にほとんど黒一色のような個体も見られます。

 

尾長揚羽は北海道から九州まで東アジアにも分布する黒くて大きなアゲハチョウです。

ナミアゲハよりもひとまわり大きく見え前翅は横に細長く、そのためシルエットがジャコウアゲハに似て見えます。後翅は輪郭が波打っており、波に合わせるように三日月型の赤い紋が入っています。尾状突起が長いのも特徴。縁は若干白く前翅の方が後翅に比べて黒が薄くなっています。