Vanessa (butterfly)

Vanessa Temporal range: Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Red admiral, Vanessa atalanta
American lady, Vanessa virginiensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Nymphalini
Genus:	Vanessa Fabricius, 1807
Species
See text
Synonyms
Fieldia (Niculescu, 1979) Cynthia (Fabricius, 1807) Pyrameis (Hübner, 1819) Bassaris (Hübner, 1821) Ammiralis (Rennie, 1832) Neopyrameis (Scudder, 1889)

Vanessa is a

North American species in the genus overwinter as adults.[4]

Species

The 22 extant species are:^[1]

• C. & R. Felder
  , 1867) – Abyssinian admiral
• Vanessa altissima (Rosenberg & Talbot, 1914) – Andean painted lady
• Vanessa annabella
  (Field, 1971) – West Coast lady
• Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758) – red admiral
• Vanessa braziliensis (Moore, 1883) – Brazilian painted lady
• Vanessa buana (Fruhstorfer, 1898) – Lompobatang lady
• Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758) – painted lady or cosmopolitan
• Vanessa carye (Hübner, [1812]) – western painted lady
• Godart
  , 1824
• Vanessa dilecta Hanafusa, 1992
• Vanessa dimorphica (Howarth, 1966) – dimorphic admiral or northern short-tailed admiral
• Vanessa gonerilla (Fabricius
  , 1775) – New Zealand red admiral
• Vanessa hippomene (Hübner, 1823) – southern short-tailed admiral
• Vanessa indica (Herbst, 1794) – Indian red admiral or Asian admiral
• Vanessa itea
  (Fabricius, 1775) – Australian or yellow admiral
• Vanessa kershawi
  (McCoy, 1868) – Australian painted lady
• Vanessa myrinna (Doubleday, 1849) – vivid banded lady or banded lady
• Vanessa samani (Hagen, 1895)
• Vanessa tameamea
  (Eschscholtz, 1821) – Kamehameha butterfly
• Vanessa terpsichore Philipi, 1859 – Chilean lady
• Vanessa virginiensis
  (Drury, [1773]) – American lady or American painted lady
• Vanessa vulcania (Godart, 1819) – Canary red admiral

• Comparison of admirals and painted ladies
• 
  Vanessa abyssinica,
  Abyssinian admiral
• 
  Vanessa annabella

  ,
  West Coast lady
• 
  Vanessa atalanta,
  red admiral
• 
  Vanessa braziliensis,
  Brazilian painted lady
• 
  Vanessa cardui,
  painted lady
• 
  Vanessa carye,
  western painted lady
• 
  Vanessa gonerilla

  ,
  New Zealand red admiral
• 
  Vanessa indica,
  Indian red admiral
• 
  Vanessa itea

  ,
  yellow admiral
• 
  Vanessa kershawi

  ,
  Australian painted lady
• 
  Vanessa myrinna,
  banded lady
• 
  Vanessa tameamea

  ,
  Kamehameha butterfly
• 
  Vanessa terpsichore,
  Chilean lady
• 
  Vanessa virginiensis

  ,
  American painted lady
• 
  Vanessa vulcania,
  Canary red admiral

Fossil species

A fossil species,

Lagerstatte, from Late Eocene Colorado, and coexisted with several other extinct butterfly taxa.^[5]

References

1. ^
   doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00566.x
   .
2. doi:10.1179/nam.1993.41.4.276
   .
3. ^ Sodoffsky, W. (1837). Etymologische Untersuchungen ueber die Gattungsnamen der Schmetterlinge (p. 7).
4. ^ Scott, J. A. (1999). Hibernal diapause of North American Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 18(3):171-200.
5. ^ Miller, Jacqueline Y., and Frederick Martin Brown. "A new Oligocene fossil butterfly, Vanessa amerindica (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), from the Florissant formation, Colorado." Bulletin of the Allyn Museum (USA) (1989).

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