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Vanessa vulcania (Canary Red Admiral)

Synonyms: Pyrameis vulcania (homotypic); Vanessa carmencitai

Wikipedia Abstract

Vanessa vulcania (Canary red admiral) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found on the Canary islands (except Lanzarote) and Madeira. Previously, it was considered a subspecies of Vanessa indica, but has been raised to species level after research by Leestmans in 1992. The wingspan is 54–60 mm. Adults are on wing year round. The larvae feed on Urtica morifolia and Urtica urens.
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Prey / Diet

Urtica urens (Dwarf nettle)[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit 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