Vanessa itea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Vanessa
- Species
- Vanessa itea
- Scientific Name
- Vanessa itea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Yellow admiral
The yellow admiral or Australian admiral (Vanessa itea) is a butterfly native to Australia, New Zealand, Lord Howe Island, and Norfolk Islands. The Māori name is kahukōwhai, which means "yellow cloak". The yellow admiral is a member of the family Nymphalidae, the subfamily Nymphalinae and the tribe Nymphalini.
...Vanessa itea in languages:
- Chinese
- 黃眉紅蛺蝶
- English
- Yellow Admiral
- English
- Australian Admiral
- English
- Yellow Admiral Butterfly
- Japanese
- モンキアカタテハ
- Māori
- Kahukowhai
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Parent Taxon
Sibling 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