Aglais ichnusa is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic that belongs to the browns family. It is endemic to Corsica and Sardinia.[2]
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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 | |
Description from Seitz edit
— 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]
Food plants edit
Larvae of Aglais ichnusa feed on Urtica atrovirens and Urtica dioica.[4]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Bonelli (1826): Descrizione di sei nuove specie d'insetti dell'ordine dei Lepidotteri diurni, raccolte in Sardegna dal Sig. Cav. Alberto Della-Marmora negli anni 1822 e 1823. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino 30: 171-188, pl. I-III. Torino (Stamperia Reale).
- ^ IUCN red list
- ^ Hans Stichel in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Clarke, Harry E. (14 April 2022). "A provisional checklist of European butterfly larval foodplants". Nota Lepidopterologica. 45. Supplementary material: spreadsheet. doi:10.3897/nl.45.72017. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
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