Checklist Number
B42
This is an Indo-Australasian species and was figured by James Petiver in his Papilionum Britanniae in 1717. It is believed that Albin, an illustrator by trade, inadvertently mixed up his specimens, believing he had taken this specimen at Hampstead. This species is also known as the Meadow Argus butterfly in Australia.
Family: | Nymphalidae | Rafinesque, 1815 |
Subfamily: | Nymphalinae | Rafinesque, 1815 |
Tribe: | Junoniini | Reuter, 1896 |
Genus: | Junonia | Hübner, [1819] |
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Species: | villida | (Fabricius, 1787) |