Vanessa

Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Nymphalinae
Tribus: Nymphalini
Genus: Vanessa
Species: V. abyssinica – V. altissima – V. annabella – V. atalanta – V. braziliensis – V. buana – V. cardui – V. carye – V. dejeanii – V. dilecta – V. dimorphica – V. gonerilla – V. hippomene – V. indica – V. itea – V. kershawi – V. myrinna – V. samani – V. tameamea – V. terpsichore – V. virginiensis – V. vulcania – †V. amerindica

Vanessa Fabricius, 1807: 281.

• Cynthia Fabricius, 1807: 281.
• Pyrameis Hübner, [1819]
• Bassaris Hübner, [1821]
• Ammiralis Rennie, 1832
• Neopyrameis Scudder, 1889: 434.
• Fieldia Niculescu, 1979. Preoccupied by Fieldia Walcott, 1912 (Priapulida: Fieldiidae).
• Neofieldia Özdikmen, 2008: 321. Replacement name for Fieldia Niculescu, 1979.

• Fabricius, J.C. 1807. In Illiger, J. K. W. Magazin für Insektenkunde 6: 279–289. BHL. Reference page. 
• Scudder, S.H. 1889. The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada, with Special Reference to New England. Vol. I. Introduction, Nymphalidae. Scudder, Cambridge: 1–766. BHL. Reference page. 
• Özdikmen, H. 2008. Replacement names for two preoccupied butterfly genus group names (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Munis Entomology & Zoology 3(1): 321–322. PDF. Reference page. 

• Abbasi, R. & Marcus, J.M. 2015. Color pattern evolution in Vanessa butterflies (Nymphalidae: Nymphalini): non-eyespot characters. Evolution & Development 17(1): 63–81. DOI: 10.1111/ede.12109 Reference page. 
• Field, W.D. 1971: Butterflies of the genus Vanessa and of the resurrected genera Bassaris and Cynthia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Smithsonian contributions to zoology, (84 ).
• Gil-T., F. & Obregón, R. 2012. Notes on the preimaginal stages of Vanessa vulcania (Godart, 1819) and differences in the structure of the egg with respect to Vanessa indica (Herbst, 1794) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Atalanta 43(1/2): 87–90. ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Hanafusa, H. 1992b. Three new Nymphalid butterflies from Indonesia and Philippines (Lep. : Nymphalidae). Futao 10: 1–2. Reference page. 
• Miller, J.Y. & Brown, F.M. 1989. A new oligocene fossil butterfly, Vanessa †amerindica (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), from the Florissant Formation, Colorado. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 126: 1–9. PDF. Reference page. 
• Vane-Wright, R.I. & Hughes, H.W.D. 2007. Did a member of the Vanessa indica complex (Nymphalidae) formerly occur in North America? Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 61(4): 199–212. PDF. Reference page. 
• Wahlberg, N., Brower, A.V.Z. & Nylin, S. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography of tribes and genera in the subfamily Nymphalinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 86(2): 227–251. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00531.x . Reference page. 
• Wahlberg, N. & Rubinoff, D. 2011. Vagility across Vanessa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): mobility in butterfly species does not inhibit the formation and persistence of isolated sister taxa. Systematic Entomology 36(2): 362–370. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00566.x Reference page. 

• Vanessa [Fabricius, 1807] – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Vanessa – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• EOL: Vanessa

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