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Polygonia c-album Linnaeus (Comma)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Polygonia c-album Imago 25 July 2006 Berks England 3
Polygonia c-album Imago 14 July 2006 North Hampshire England 4
Polygonia c-album Imago 20 July 2003 Berks England 2
Polygonia c-album Larva 21 September 1986 North Wiltshire England 3
Polygonia c-album Imago 11 April 1970 Surrey England 1

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos
Variety Polygonia c-album var. hutchinsoni (a comma) 5

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Sterry, P., 2002, Comma, British Wildlife, Vol 13, No. 4: 280 (Colour photograph (underside)) Comma

Polygonia c-album may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)
DITRYSIA
(the major suborder of moths)
PAPILIONOIDEA
(butterflies)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Polygonia c-album:

Photos larva larva is endoparasitoid host of larva Compsilura concinnata - a parasitoid fly (Diptera: Tachinidae) Belshaw, R., 1993 [NHM]
Photos larva larva is endoparasitoid host of larva Gonia picea - a parasitoid fly (Diptera: Tachinidae) Belshaw, R., 1993
larva larva is endoparasitoid host of larva Nemorilla floralis - a parasitoid fly (Diptera: Tachinidae) Belshaw, R., 1993 [NHM]

Polygonia c-album may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
INSECTA
(insects)
LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)
NYMPHALIDAE
(fritillary and vanessid butterflies)

References

Belshaw, R., 1993 Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae)

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