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Beast-forms · Face-borrowers

Pseudotheriiformes : Prosopocollidae

Sun-faced Borrower

Prosopocolla solifacies

タイヨウカリガオ

The type species of its family. It borrowed its face from the sun, and at noon turns that face toward its owner in the sky.

Locality

Toyono-gun, Osaka Pref., Japan: in a hilltop meadow, in the noon sun

Collected

8.III.1995 Hikaru Hongu leg.

Determined

1.XI.2017 Toshiro Tsuzura det.