Vanessa Altissima
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Vanessa altissima is a butterfly ( butterfly ) of the genus Vanessa from the family of the noble butterfly (Nymphalidae), which occurs in the high altitudes of South America.
features
Vanessa altissima has a fore wing length of 19 to 29 millimeters. It looks very similar to the American painted lady C. virginiensis and V. braziliensis . The two small apical spots on the outer edge of the forewings are white as in C. virginiensis , in V. braziliensis the second in the space M 1 is bluish. On the other hand, it has more white at the edge of the marginal blue band and at the edge of the black bar between costalader and cell the white edge is missing as in V. braziliensis . The two submarginal eye spots on the hind wing are smaller than those of C. virginiensis . It differs from all other species in that the dark band over the middle of the hind wing does not go beyond the spaces M 2 and M 3 .
Geographical distribution and habitat
Vanessa altissima occurs only in the high altitudes of the Andes of Ecuador , Peru and Bolivia . The caterpillars probably feed on composites (Compositae).
Synonyms
- Pyrameis huntera altissima
literature
- First description of Pyrameis huntera altissima in the Transaction of the Entomological Society of London , 1913, p. 675 online
Individual evidence
- ^ William D. Field: Butterflies of the Genus Vanessa and of the Resurrected Genera Bassaris and Cynthia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) , Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Number 84, 1971, p. 48
- ^ A b William D. Field: Butterflies of the Genus Vanessa and of the Resurrected Genera Bassaris and Cynthia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) , Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, number 84, 1971, p. 50f