Vanessa (butterfly)

Vanessa; Temporal range: Chadronian-Holocene 37.2–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Red admiral, Vanessa atalanta
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 genus of brush-footed butterflies. It has an almost world-wide distribution.

It includes the famous red admiral species, and the painted ladies of the subgenus Cynthia.^[1]

References

↑ Wahlberg, Niklas; Rubinoff, Daniel (2011). "Vagility across Vanessa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): mobility in butterfly species does not inhibit the formation and persistence of isolated sister taxa". Systematic Entomology. 36 (2): 362–370. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00566.x. S2CID 85698796.

Vanessa Temporal range: Chadronian-Holocene 37.2–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Red admiral, Vanessa atalanta
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)