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Species of butterfly From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aglais ichnusa is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic that belongs to the browns family. It is endemic to Corsica and Sardinia.[2]
Aglais ichnusa | |
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Aglais ichnusa Upperside MHNT | |
Aglais ichnusa Underside MHNT | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Aglais |
Species: | A. ichnusa |
Binomial name | |
Aglais ichnusa | |
— 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]
Larvae of Aglais ichnusa feed on Urtica atrovirens and Urtica dioica.[4]
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