Aglais ichnusa explained

Aglais ichnusa is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic that belongs to the browns family. It is endemic to Corsica and Sardinia.[1]

Description from Seitz

— ichnusa Bon. (62f) is distinguished particularly by the less angulate wings, the deeper red ground-colour, and usually by the absence of the discal and hindmarginal spots of the forewing. Closely allied to the following race [''turcica'' Stgr. now ''[[Small tortoiseshell|Aglais urticae turcica]] (Staudinger, 1871)], transitions from the nymotypical subspecies to ichnusa occur in the southern districts of the latter. Sardinia, Corsica.[2]

Food plants

Larvae of Aglais ichnusa feed on Urtica atrovirens and Urtica dioica.[3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/173205/0 IUCN red list
  2. [Hans Ferdinand Emil Julius Stichel|Hans Stichel]
  3. Clarke . Harry E. . A provisional checklist of European butterfly larval foodplants . Nota Lepidopterologica . 14 April 2022 . 45 . 10.3897/nl.45.72017 . 22 September 2022 . Supplementary material: spreadsheet. free .