Great purple emperor butterfly



The Purple Butterfly is the rarest butterfly and fastest in and, selling for 2,000 Bells. It is not simply sighted, as it appears behind trees when entering the acre, thus making it easy to miss when taking a brief look through the area. When approached it will immediately flee, and when chased out of the Acre it disappears much to players' annoyance. In the games, and  it is the only flying insect (other than tree insects and bees from hives) to be found during rain. In clear weather, this butterfly is pain-stakingly hard to find as there are many other far more common insects. Even the rare Banded Dragonfly can be found in great numbers before a single Purple Butterfly is encountered.

Outside of its season, it can be found on the Island during the same conditions.

In Animal Crossing
"There's an old saying among some of my contemporaries: "Butterflies are beautiful, yet moths are monstrous."

''Well if you were to ask me, I'd say they're all the same! By which I mean disgusting! Truly hoo-riffic, wot wot!''

''Hooo... But I digress..." ''

Once donated it appears in the middle of the insect section sitting on the trunk of a tree.

Bug Encyclopedia Information
As this insect has not yet appeared in a game which features the bug encylopedia, there is no entry.

Further Information
Sasakia charonda, better known as the Great Purple Emperor is a large nymphalid butterfly unrelated to the european Purple Emperor, Apatura iris. However, much like the latter species, it inhabits the treetop canopy, only coming down to feed. Not only this, in both species the females are identical to the males except thy lack the purple iridescence. Larvae feed on Hackberry plants. It is the national butterfly of Japan, and highly prized by collectors.

Insect ID
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 * 03- Tiger Butterfly
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