Aglais ichnusa


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
Aglais ichnusa Upperside MHNT
Aglais ichnusa Underside MHNT
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Aglais
Species:
A. ichnusa
Binomial name
Aglais ichnusa
(Bonelli, 1826) [1]

Description from Seitz
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

— 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]

Food plants

Larvae of Aglais ichnusa feed on Urtica atrovirens and Urtica dioica.[4]

See also

References
  1. Bonelli (1826): Descrizione di sei nuove specie d'insetti dell'ordine dei Lepidotteri diurni, raccolte in Sardegna dal Sig. Cav. Alberto Della-Marmora negli anni 1822 e 1823. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino 30: 171-188, pl. I-III. Torino (Stamperia Reale).
  2. IUCN red list
  3. Hans Stichel in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. Clarke, Harry E. (14 April 2022). "A provisional checklist of European butterfly larval foodplants". Nota Lepidopterologica. 45. Supplementary material: spreadsheet. doi:10.3897/nl.45.72017. Retrieved 22 September 2022.


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