small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)

Query: Nymphalidae

Result: 347^th of 452

Subject:	small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)
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Vanessa urticae. Kälteformen.

Plate from Die Schmetterlinge Deutschlands mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Biologie, Bd. 1-4, by K. Eckstein
Date Published [1913-1923) in Stuttgart, Germany by K.G. Lutz' Verlag.
Source http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/39412
Author Karl Eckstein
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dieschmetterling14ecks_0450.png

The small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) is a colourful Eurasian butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found throughout temperate Europe, Asia Minor, Central Asia, Siberia, China, Mongolia, Korea and Japan. The small tortoiseshell is the national butterfly of Denmark.

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