Aglais ichnusa | |
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Aglais ichnusa Upperside MHNT | |
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Aglais ichnusa Underside MHNT | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Aglais |
Species: | A. ichnusa
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Binomial name | |
Aglais ichnusa |
Aglais ichnusa is a small
butterfly found in the
Palearctic that belongs to the
browns family. It is
endemic to
Corsica and
Sardinia.
[2]
— ichnusa Bon. (62f ) is distinguished particularly by the less angulate wings, the deeper red ground-colour, and usually by the absence of the discal and hindmarginal spots of the forewing. Closely allied to the following race [turcica Stgr. now Aglais urticae turcica (Staudinger, 1871)], transitions from the nymotypical subspecies to ichnusa occur in the southern districts of the latter. Sardinia, Corsica. [3]
Larvae of Aglais ichnusa feed on Urtica atrovirens and Urtica dioica. [4]
Aglais ichnusa | |
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Aglais ichnusa Upperside MHNT | |
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Aglais ichnusa Underside MHNT | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Aglais |
Species: | A. ichnusa
|
Binomial name | |
Aglais ichnusa |
Aglais ichnusa is a small
butterfly found in the
Palearctic that belongs to the
browns family. It is
endemic to
Corsica and
Sardinia.
[2]
— ichnusa Bon. (62f ) is distinguished particularly by the less angulate wings, the deeper red ground-colour, and usually by the absence of the discal and hindmarginal spots of the forewing. Closely allied to the following race [turcica Stgr. now Aglais urticae turcica (Staudinger, 1871)], transitions from the nymotypical subspecies to ichnusa occur in the southern districts of the latter. Sardinia, Corsica. [3]
Larvae of Aglais ichnusa feed on Urtica atrovirens and Urtica dioica. [4]