Gonepteryx maxima

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| taxon = Gonepteryx maxima

| authority = Butler, 1885

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Gonepteryx maxima is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1885. It is found from north-eastern China to Korea, Japan, the Russian Far East (Amur, Ussuri) and Japan.[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/pieridae/coliadinae/gonepteryx/index.html Gonepteryx] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms The habitat consists of steppe and forest-steppe areas.

Adults are on wing from the end of July to September. Adults overwinter and fly again from May to June.

The larvae feed on Rhamnus ussuriensis.[http://rusinsects.com/g-maxi.htm Gonepteryx maxima Butler, 1885] at Russian Insects