Vanessa virginiensis (Drury, 1773)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Nymphalinae → tribe Nymphalini → genus Vanessa → species Vanessa virginiensis

Species name(s)

Vanessa virginiensis (Drury, 1773) = Papilio virginiensis Drury, [1773] = Papilio huntera Fabricius, 1775 = Papilio iole Cramer, 1775 = Cynthia gnaphalii Fabricius, 1938 = Papilio jole Cramer, 1776 = hunteri = Vanessa huntera = Vanessa huntera fulvia. [9, 10]

American Painted Lady.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8621

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

UK, Germany, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Portugal, France. [1].
British Isles, Germany, Ireland, Spain (mainland), Canary Islands, Portugal (mainland), France (mainland). [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Asteraceae, Malvaceae, Fabaceae, Urticaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Boraginaceae. [28].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Paolo Mazzei.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012