cat: Papallona teranyina; esp: Araschnia levana; eng: Map butterfly
Gernika-Euskadi-Spain
phylum: Arthropoda > (Unirramia) > Hexapoda > class: Insecta > (Pterygota) > (Neoptera) > Endopterygota > order: Lepidoptera > (Glossata) > (Heteroneura-Ditrysia-Papilionoidea) > family: Nymphalidae
The map is unusual in that its two annual broods look very different. The summer brood are black with white markings, looking like a miniature version of the white admiral and lacking most of the orange of the pictured spring brood.
This one is forma prorsa.
