Vanessa altissima

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Andean painted lady
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Vanessa
Species:
V. altissima
Binomial name
Vanessa altissima
(Rosenberg & Talbot, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Pyrameis huntera altissimaRosenberg & Talbot, 1914

Vanessa altissima, the Andean painted lady, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in Ecuador and Peru. [1]

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References

  1. "Vanessa Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms