Arthropods
🦋Vanessa cardui
Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)
Vanessa cardui is the most widespread of all butterfly species. It is commonly called the painted lady, or formerly in North America the cosmopolitan butterfly.
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Also called
Painted Lady
Conservation status
LCLeast concern
IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
Population trendUnknown
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- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classInsecta
- ›orderLepidoptera
- ›familyNymphalidae
- ›genusVanessa
- ›speciesVanessa cardui
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- classInsects · Insecta
- orderButterflies & moths · Lepidoptera
- tribeNymphalini
- genusVanessa
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumHexapoda
- classInsects · Insecta
- subclassPterygota
- superorderAmphiesmenoptera
- orderButterflies & moths · Lepidoptera
- suborderGlossata
- subfamilyNymphalinae
- tribeNymphalini
- genusVanessa
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In other languages
Distelfalter (de), дяволска пеперуда (bg), Papallona dels cards (ca), babočka bodláková (cs), Tidselsommerfugl (da), ohdakeperhonen (fi) … and 22 more languages
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