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red admiral (Vanessa atalanta), painted lady (Vanessa cardui), European peacock (Aglais io), small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)
| Subject: | red admiral (Vanessa atalanta), painted lady (Vanessa cardui), European peacock (Aglais io), small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)
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Description
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 http://www.archive.org/details/dieschmetterling14ecks
Author Karl Eckstein
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dieschmetterling14ecks_0135.png
1. Pyrameis atlanta = red admiral (Vanessa atalanta)
2. Pyrameis cardui = painted lady (Vanessa cardui)
3. Vanessa jo = European peacock (Aglais io)
4. Vanessa urticae = small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)
The red admiral (Vanessa atalanta) is a well-known colourful butterfly, found in temperate Europe, Asia and North America. Atalanta is a figure in Greek mythology, a strong yet feminine woman who faces obstacles and backlash for refusing to follow gender norms.
Vanessa cardui is a well-known colourful butterfly, known as the painted lady, or in North America as the cosmopolitan. This butterfly has a strange pattern of flying in a sort of screw shape.
The European Peacock (Aglais io), more commonly known simply as the Peacock butterfly, is a colourful butterfly, found in Europe and temperate Asia as far east as Japan.
The small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) is a colourful Eurasian butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.
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Scientific Name: Aglais urticae Linnaeus, 1758
Common Names: Small Tortoiseshell
Taxonomy: Papilio urticae [original combination] |
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