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Albin's Hampstead Eye

Junonia villida

joo-NO-nee-uh vill-EE-duh

Checklist Number
B42

Albin's Hampstead Eye

Junonia villida

joo-NO-nee-uh vill-EE-duh

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.

This species was first defined in Fabricius (1787) as shown here (type locality: New Amsterdam).