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Specimen exhibition room

Update date: March 16, 2018

The specimen exhibition room displays specimens of insects such as butterflies, dragonflies, longhorn beetles, and beetles.

Specimen exhibition room
  Exhibition Contents overview Exhibition Contents
1 Inagi's nature, flora and fauna flora and fauna Vegetation maps, overviews of flora and fauna, photo panels, etc.
2 Insects discovered in Inagi insect specimen Insect specimens created by the former Inagi High School outdoor activities club are on display. Introducing butterflies, moths, dragonflies, longhorn beetles, and other beetles using insect specimens and photo panels.
3 Former Inagi High School Outdoor Activities Club results Activities and achievements of the former Inagi High School outdoor activities club. Introducing the department magazine “Inagi Natural Museum”

Image: Specimen exhibition room
Specimen exhibition room

Inagi's nature, flora and fauna

The flora and fauna found in Inagi are introduced through photo panels and charts. Vegetation maps showing changes in the natural environment and photos of characteristic plants are on display. The photo below shows Tama no Kan Aoi, a rare plant that grows mainly in forests and only lives in the Tama Hills and the surrounding area.

Insects discovered in Inagi

Introducing insects collected in Inagi. Inagi City is blessed with a diverse environment, including hilly forests, grasslands, rice paddies, ponds and rivers, cultivated land, and urban areas, where a huge variety of insects live their respective lives. In areas where development has progressed, different species can now be seen due to changes in the environment. We also exhibit rare specimens such as the national butterfly, Omurasaki, which has recently disappeared.

Insect classification table
classification Department
Butterfly

8 families, 73 species

(10 species of Papilionidae, 6 species of Chillidae, 1 species of Lycaenidae, 17 species of Lycaenidae, 1 species of Proboscideae, 18 species of Nymphalidae, 8 species of Elmidae, 12 species of Spermidae)
Ga

4 families, 64 species

(11 species of Geometridae, 5 species of Polygonidae, 19 species of Sphingidae, 29 species of Noctuaceae)
Dragonfly

10 families, 56 species

(7 species of Odonataceae, 1 species of Odonataceae, 4 species of Odonataceae, 3 species of Odonataceae, 9 species of Odonataceae, 1 species of Odonataceae, 1 species of Odonataceae, 8 species of Odonataceae, 3 species of Odonataceae, 19 species of Odonataceae seed)
fire Fly

1 family, 5 species

(Five species of fireflies)
longhorn beetle

1 family, 104 species (104 species of Cerambycidae)

others

27 species from 4 families (4 species from the family Carabidae, 7 species from the family Lucanidae, 14 species from the family Scarabaeidae, and 2 species from the family Buprestidae)

total 28 families and 329 species

This table shows the insects found in Inagi City up to 2008 during surveys conducted as part of the City History Compilation Project and by members of the Inagi Open Air Museum. This will change depending on future research.

Former Inagi High School Outdoor Activities Club

The insect specimens displayed in the specimen exhibition room were collected and created by the outdoor activity club of the former Inagi High School. On display are the magazine ``Inagi Nature Museum'' published by the Outdoor Activities Department, notebooks recording activity status, and photo panels of insects.

Outdoor activities club exhibition
Outdoor activities club exhibition

Inquiries regarding this page

Inagi City Education Department Lifelong Learning Division
2111 Higashi-Naganuma, Inagi-shi, Tokyo
Phone: 042-377-2121 Fax: 042-379-0491

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