Vanessa carye
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Western painted lady | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Vanessa |
Species: | V. carye
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Vanessa carye | |
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Vanessa carye, the western painted lady, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in South America, from the mountains of Colombia and west of Caracas (Venezuela) through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, southern Brazil, and Paraguay to Patagonia in Argentina. It is also found on Easter Island and Tuamotus.
The larvae feed on Achyrocline flaccida and many other species.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Vanessa Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Encyclopedia of Life. Ecology of Vanessa carye
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