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Vanessa atalanta Linnaeus (Red Admiral)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Vanessa atalanta Imago 16 July 2006 North Hampshire England 2
Vanessa atalanta Larva 25 June 2006 East Sussex England 11 6
Vanessa atalanta Larva 25 June 2006 East Sussex England 2
Vanessa atalanta Imago 17 August 2003 Dorset England 2
Vanessa atalanta Imago 17 August 2003 Dorset England 2
Vanessa atalanta Imago 2 August 2003 Berks England 1
Vanessa atalanta Imago 20 July 2003 Berks England 4
Vanessa atalanta Imago 28 October 1999 South Devon England 2
Vanessa atalanta Imago 17 July 1976 Surrey England 4
Vanessa atalanta Imago 2 September 1973 (Yorks) England 1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Blackburn, F., 2002, Red Admiral, British Wildlife, Volume 13, No. 3: 204 Red Admiral
Brereton, T., Roy, D., & Greatorex-Davies, N., 2006 (Colour photograph) Thirty Years and Counting - the contribution to conservation and ecology of butterfly-monitoring in the UK

Vanessa atalanta 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 Vanessa atalanta:

larva larva is endoparasitoid host of larva Voria ruralis - a parasitoid fly (Diptera: Tachinidae) Belshaw, R., 1993 [BCM]
Photos larva larva is endoparasitoid host of larva Phryxe nemea - a parasitoid fly (Diptera: Tachinidae) Ford, T.H. & Shaw, M.R., 1991
Audcent, H., 1932
Belshaw, R., 1993
larva larva is endoparasitoid host of larva Pales pavida - a parasitoid fly (Diptera: Tachinidae) Ford, T.H. & Shaw, M.R., 1991
Belshaw, R., 1993

Vanessa atalanta 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

Audcent, H., 1932 Bristol insect fauna: Diptera (part 5)
Belshaw, R., 1993 Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae)
Ford, T.H. & Shaw, M.R., 1991 Host records of some West Palaearctic Tachinidae (Diptera)

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