Name: Chinese Teinopalpus aureus Teinopalpus aureus
Teinopalpus gold body length of about 30 mm, two wings spread over 110 mm, is a large swallowtail. Its wings lepidopter flashing a faint green light. On the forewings are respectively provided with an arc spot gold green belt; a few golden hind wing central crescent gold plaque, posterior macula, caudate prominent slender hind wings, at the end of a small piece of golden color. It often fly in the air, also sometimes stopped at the flowers, the beautiful gesture, like a gorgeous noble, glamorous "Lady", so people call it the "Queen of the butterfly".
Male and female alien. Male body, butterfly wings is emerald green, dark brown color. The forewings have a black diagonal band, the area within the color thick, outside the pale. The rim has two parallel black belt. The outer hind wing dentate, emerald crescent markings, the golden yellow markings on crescent shaped markings inside. This butterfly is named after it, and is famous in the world. Female wingless, golden green, Pentagon hind wings big spot color white, slender tail process.
Teinopalpus aureus is a species endemic to Chinese, extremely rare, only distributed in Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi and other minority areas. This species is the most expensive and rare butterfly in the world. For a long time, has been the world's butterfly experts as "butterfly dream". The butterfly is endemic to China, rare and rare (the number of wild survival far less than the giant panda), is the only national level to protect animals butterfly. Many experts suggest China's national butterfly.