Vanessa

Vanessa cardui

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilioniformes

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Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Nymphalinae
Tribus: Nymphalini
Genus: Vanessa
Species: V. altissima - V. annabella - V. atalanta - V. braziliensis - V. buana - V. cardui - V. carye - V. dejeanii - V. dilecta - V. gonerilla - V. indica - V. itea - V. kershawi - V. myrinna - V. samani - V. tameamea - V. terpsichore - V. virginiensis - V. vulcania - †V. amerindica

Name

Vanessa Fabricius, 1807

Synonyms

• Cynthia Fabricius, 1807
• Pyrameis Hübner, 1819
• Bassaris Hübner, 1821
• Ammiralis Rennie, 1832
• Neopyrameis Scudder, 1889
• Fieldia Niculescu, 1979
• Neofieldia Özdikmen, 2008, (Replacement name for Fieldia Niculescu, 1979). Preoccupied by Fieldia, Walcott, 1912 (Priapulida: Fieldiidae).

Reference

• Field, W.D. 1971: Butterflies of the genus Vanessa and of the resurrected genera Bassaris and Cynthia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Smithsonian contributions to zoology, (84).
• Hanafusa, H., 1992: Three new nymphalid butterflies from Indonesia and Philippines. Futao 10: 1-2.
• Miller, J.Y. & F.M. Brown, 1989: A new oligocene fossil butterfly, Vanessa amerindica (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from the Florissant Formation, Colorado. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 126: 1-9. Full article: [1].
• Özdikmen, H, 2008: Replacement names for two preoccupied butterfly genus group names (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Munis Entomology & Zoology 3 (1): 321-322.

Vernacular names

中文: 紅蛺蝶屬

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