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Aglais milberti (Milbert’s Tortoiseshell)

Synonyms: Aglais rothkei; Nymphalis milberti; Vanessa milberti

Wikipedia Abstract

Milbert's Tortoiseshell (Aglais milberti), also known as the Fire-rim Tortoiseshell, is the only species of Aglais that occurs in North America.
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Infraspecies

Aglais milberti furcillata
Aglais milberti milberti
Aglais milberti pullum
Aglais milberti viola

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.693 inches (.043 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Badlands National Park II 178535 South Dakota, United States

Prey / Diet

Laportea canadensis (Canadian woodnettle)[2]
Urtica dioica (California nettle)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Acanthis flammea (Common Redpoll)1
Passer domesticus (House Sparrow)1
Vanessa atalanta (red admiral)2

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Compsilura concinnata (Tachina fly)[3]
Lespesia archippivora[3]
Pelatachina pellucida[3]
Winthemia quadripustulata[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0