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Vanessa

Insecta - Lepidoptera - Nymphalidae

Taxonomy
Vanessa was named by Fabricius (1807). It is extant.

It was assigned to Nymphalidae by Carpenter (1992); to Nymphalinae by Sohn et al. (2012); and to Nymphalini by de Jong (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1807Vanessa Fabricius p. 281
1992Vanessa Carpenter
2012Vanessa Sohn et al. p. 69
2017Vanessa de Jong p. 16

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Panorpida
superorderAmphiesmenopteraKiriakoff 1948
Metamphiesmenoptera
RankNameAuthor
Euamphiesmenoptera
Panendymenoptera
Endymenoptera
Stelloptera
orderLepidoptera
Angiospermivora
suborderGlossata()
CoelolepidaNielsen and Kristensen 1996
infraorderHeteroneuraTillyard 1918
EulepidopteraKiriakoff 1948
Euheteroneura
DitrysiaBorner 1925
ApoditrysiaMinet 1983
ObtectomeraMinet 1986
superfamilyPapilionoidea
familyNymphalidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyNymphalinaeSwinson 1827
tribeNymphaliniSwinson 1827
genusVanessaFabricius 1807

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Vanessa Fabricius 1807
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Vanessa amerindica Miller and Brown 1989
Vanessa fossilis Nekrutenko 1965
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available