Vanessa: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Vanessa
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Vanessa
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Vanessa (butterfly)
Vanessa is a genus of brush-footed butterflies in the tribe Nymphalini. It has a near-global distribution and includes conspicuous species such as the red admirals (e.g., red admiral, Indian red admiral, New Zealand red admiral), the Kamehameha, and the painted ladies of the Cynthia group (formerly a subgenus): Painted lady, American painted lady, West Coast lady, Australian painted lady, etc. For African admirals, see genus Antanartia. Recently, several members traditionally considered to be in the genus Antanartia have been determined to belong within the genus Vanessa.
The name of the genus may have been taken from the character Vanessa in Jonathan Swift's poem "Cadenus and Vanessa," which is the source of the woman's name Vanessa. In the poem Vanessa is called a "nymph" eleven times, and the genus is closely related to the previously-named genus Nymphalis. Though the name has been suggested to be a variant of "Phanessa", from the name of an Ancient Greek deity, this is unlikely. The name of the deity is actually not "Phanessa" but Phanes. Johan Christian Fabricius, the entomologist who named this genus, normally used the original forms of the names of classical divinities when he created new scientific names.
North American species in the genus overwinter as adults.
...Vanessa in languages:
- Chinese
- 紅蛺蝶屬
- Czech
- Babočka
- English
- Ladies and Related Admirals
- Estonian
- Admiralid
- German
- Admiral & Distelfalter
- Japanese
- アカタテハ属
- Korean
- 멋쟁이나비속
- Russian
- Ванессы
- Thai
- สกุล ผีเสื้อแดง
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Vanessa abyssinica
- Vanessa altissima
- Vanessa amerindica
- Vanessa annabella
- Vanessa atalanta
- Vanessa braziliensis
- Vanessa buana
- Vanessa cardui
- Vanessa carye
- Vanessa dejeanii
- Vanessa dilecta
- Vanessa dimorphica
- Vanessa gonerilla
- Vanessa hippomene
- Vanessa indica
- Vanessa itea
- Vanessa kershawi
- Vanessa myrinna
- Vanessa nubicola
- Vanessa samani
- Vanessa tameamea
- Vanessa terpsichore
- Vanessa virginiensis
- Vanessa vulcania



























































































































































