Vanessa carye

Western painted lady
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Vanessa
Species:
V. carye
Binomial name
Vanessa carye
(Hübner [1812])[1]
Synonyms
  • Hamadryas carye Hübner, [1812]
  • Pyrameis caryoides Giacomelli, 1922
  • Pyrameis carye f. minuscula Hayward, 1931
  • Pyrameis caryae ab. bruchi Köhler, 1945

Vanessa carye, the western painted lady, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in South America, from the mountains of Colombia and west of Caracas (Venezuela) through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, southern Brazil, and Paraguay to Patagonia in Argentina. It is also found on Easter Island and Tuamotus.

The larvae feed on Achyrocline flaccida and many other species.[2]

  1. ^ "Vanessa Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Encyclopedia of Life. Ecology of Vanessa carye