Vanessa (butterfly)
| Vanessa Temporal range: Chadronian-Holocene
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| Red admiral, Vanessa atalanta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Nymphalini |
| Genus: | Vanessa Fabricius, 1807 |
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Vanessa is a genus of brush-footed butterflies. It has an almost world-wide distribution.
It includes the famous red admiral species, and the painted ladies of the subgenus Cynthia.[1]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Wahlberg, Niklas; Rubinoff, Daniel (2011). "Vagility across Vanessa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): mobility in butterfly species does not inhibit the formation and persistence of isolated sister taxa". Systematic Entomology. 36 (2): 362–370. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00566.x. S2CID 85698796.