For other uses of "Painted Lady", see Painted Lady (disambiguation).
Vanessa cardui
Upperside
Underside
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Vanessa
Species:
V. cardui
Binomial name
Vanessa cardui
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Papilio cardui Linnaeus, 1758
Vanessa cardui is the most widespread of all butterfly species. It is commonly called the painted lady,[2][3] or formerly in North America the cosmopolitan.[4][5]
^"Vanessa cardui". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bingham, Charles Thomas (1905). Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 1. pp. 365–366.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Moore, Frederic (1899–1900). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. IV. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 105–107.
Vanessacardui is the most widespread of all butterfly species. It is commonly called the painted lady, or formerly in North America the cosmopolitan....
Australian painted lady should be a subspecies of the painted lady (Vanessacardui) due to the similarity in lifestyle and behaviour. Furthermore, the...
of four Vanessa species. Vanessa virginiensis is most easily distinguishable by its two large eyespots on the ventral side, whereas V. cardui has four...
Canada. The other two species are the cosmopolitan Vanessacardui (painted lady) and the eastern Vanessa virginiensis (American painted lady). This species...
winter and attractiveness to butterflies, the painted lady butterfly (Vanessacardui) in particular. A succulent bush growing over 2 m (6 ft) tall and wide...
generalists or specialists. While butterflies like the painted lady (Vanessacardui) are known to consume over 200 plants as caterpillars, other species...
300 to 400 kilometers in a single day. For example, the painted lady (Vanessacardui) migrates from Africa to Spain aided by tail winds. That the migratory...
of some Lepidoptera species including Bucculatrix quadrigemina and Vanessacardui, the painted lady. The mallow flea beetle (Podagrica fuscicornis) is...
Spinus tristis, and supports the larvae of a Painted Lady butterfly, Vanessacardui. Some other common species are: Cirsium arvense, Cirsium palustre, Cirsium...
indica pholoe (Fruhstorfer, 1912) – south India This species resembles Vanessacardui but the ground colour is darker both on the uppersides and undersides...
the noctuid moth Hypercompe hambletoni and the brush-footed butterfly Vanessacardui, the painted lady. The Bidens mottle virus, a plant pathogen, was first...
categories which can be found almost anywhere around the world Cosmopolitan (Vanessacardui) or painted lady, a butterfly Cosmopolitan (Leucania loreyi) or false...
County, United States Callisaurus draconoides in Los Cabos, Mexico Vanessacardui in Riverside County, United States Bombus sonorus in Phoenix, United...
World swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon) Painted lady butterfly (Vanessacardui) Pale crescent butterfly (Phyciodes pallida) Pale swallowtail butterfly...
antiopa) American lady (Vanessa virginiensis) Painted lady (Vanessacardui) West Coast lady (Vanessa annabella) Red admiral (Vanessa atalanta) Common buckeye...
almana is common. The lake is dried and grass grows on it, on which Vanessacardui can be found. Colotis amata, Colotis danae, Colotis aurora, and Cepora...
of the American painted lady butterfly (Vanessa virginiensis) and the painted lady butterfly (Vanessacardui). Western pearly everlasting is sometimes...
strong migration in Australia, migrate to New Zealand. The painted lady (Vanessacardui) is a butterfly whose annual 15,000 km round trip from Scandinavia and...
Cosmopolite (album) a 1956 album by Benny Carter Cosmopolite (butterfly) (Vanessacardui), also known as the painted lady Kosmopoliet, launched in 1854, said...
VanOverbeke, Dustin R. "Nutritional Ecology of a Generalist Herbivore VanessaCardui Linnaeus Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae on Variable Larval and Adult Diets...
interrogationis), Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa), Painted Lady (Vanessacardui) and Red-spotted Purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax), as well as such...
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bingham, Charles Thomas (1905). Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 1. pp. 365–366.
