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—Description of Pappiliodya from Witchpedia[1] | ||
The Pappiliodya (パピリオディア Papiriodia)[2][3], also known as Papiliodia in some sources[4][5], is a magical creature similar to a butterfly. It was said that larvae of these insectoid creatures spent their time underground and feed on nutrients of plants. Pappiliodya larvae then developed into egg-like chrysalids which roots connected to plants that they feed during their development stage before emerges with their imago forms before travel across five continents. Due to their appearance, Pappiliodya may be related to fairies.
They only emerge once every hundred-twenty years and legends said that they will bring joy and happiness on those whom look upon them as they fly.
Appearance and Life Cycle[]
Pappiliodyae's life cycle works on the same way with regular butterflies. According to its Chariot card description, a Pappiliodya egg is oval-shaped and transparent, moss green in color. Its larva appears as a green caterpillar with yellowish mandibles and white underbelly. These creatures' consistent trait is the presence of yellow six-pointed, star-shaped marking; while the egg has it on its surface, the pupa's located on the forehead before moved to the chest area upon reaching imago form. The same marking also appears on the surface of its spiky, round chrysalid. In their imago form, Pappiliodya possess huge wings similar with that of typical butterflies, but have human-like glowing body with four arms and two insectoid antennae on the head.
Upon hatching, Pappiliodya larvae spend their life underground and feed on nutrients within trees until they encase themselves within their chrysalids that glow in yellow. The yellow light seemed to come from their bodies as they developed from their larvae form to imago form. Once their development into their imago form completed, with or without magical assistance, they would emerged from their chrysalids and flew to the sky in a swarm. It should be noted that their chrysalid form during pupa stage greatly resembles parasitic mushroom that Diana mistaken them as parasites that had to be destroyed until Akko revealed what they are.
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Trivia[]
- Their species' name is a reference to "Papillon", which is French for "butterfly".
