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Geranium bronze – Cacyreus marshalli NE (imported on geraniums) Camberwell beauty – Nymphalis antiopa NE. Map – Araschnia levana NE (formerly introduced and bred) Queen of Spain fritillary – Issoria lathonia NE. Monarch – Danaus plexippus NE. American painted lady – Vanessa virginiensis NE.
Pyrameis atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758) Vanessa atalanta, the red admiral or, previously, the red admirable, [ 3] is a well-characterized, medium-sized butterfly with black wings, red bands, and white spots. It has a wingspan of about 2 inches (5 cm). [ 4] It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.
The list comprises butterfly species listed in The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland by Emmet et al. [1] and Britain's Butterflies by Tomlinson and Still. [2] A study by NERC in 2004 found there has been a species decline of 71% of butterfly species between 1983 and 2003. [3] The 2007 UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) listed 22 ...
Nymphalis antiopa, known as the mourning cloak in North America and the Camberwell beauty in Britain, is a large butterfly native to Eurasia and North America. The immature form of this species is sometimes known as the spiny elm caterpillar. [ 2] Other older names for this species include grand surprise and white petticoat.
V. cardui. Binomial name. Vanessa cardui. ( Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms. Papilio cardui Linnaeus, 1758. Vanessa cardui is the most widespread of all butterfly species. It is commonly called the painted lady, [ 2][ 3] or formerly in North America the cosmopolitan. [ 4][ 5]
Its wings feature an orange and black pattern, and over most of its range it is a Müllerian mimic [4] with the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus). The viceroy's wingspan is between 53 and 81 mm (2.1 and 3.2 in). [5] It can be distinguished from the monarch by its smaller size and the postmedian black line that runs across the veins on the ...
Phoebis sennae, the cloudless sulphur, is a mid-sized butterfly in the family Pieridae found in the Americas. There are several similar species such as the yellow angled-sulphur ( Anteos maerula ), which has angled wings, statira sulphur ( Aphrissa statira ), and other sulphurs, which are much smaller. The species name comes from the genus ...
Lepidoptera (/ ˌ l ɛ p ɪ ˈ d ɒ p t ər ə / LEP-ih-DOP-tər-ə) or lepidopterans is an order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths.About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organisms, [1] [2] making it the second largest insect order (behind Coleoptera) with 126 families [3] and 46 superfamilies ...