Vanessa (butterfly)
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Vanessa Temporal range: Chadronian-Holocene |
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| Red Admiral, Vanessa atalanta | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Nymphalinae |
| Tribe: | Nymphalini |
| Genus: |
Vanessa Fabricius, 1807 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Fieldia (Niculescu, 1979) |
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Fieldia (Niculescu, 1979)
Cynthia (Fabricius, 1807)
Pyrameis (Hübner, 1819)
Bassaris (Hübner, 1821)
Ammiralis (Rennie, 1832)
Neopyrameis (Scudder, 1889)
Fieldia (Niculescu, 1979)
Vanessa is a genus of brush-footed butterflies. 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 subgenus Cynthia: 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 girl's name. 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.
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