Polygonia c-album (Linnaeus, 1758), (comma)

21 Sep 1986 at OSGR: SU26 in North Wilts, England

Taxonomic hierarchy:
Species: Polygonia c-album (Comma)
Tribe: Nymphalini (nymphalid butterflies)
Subfamily: NYMPHALINAE (nymphalid butterflies)
Family: NYMPHALIDAE (brown, fritillary and vanessid butterflies)
Superfamily: PAPILIONOIDEA (butterflies)
Suborder: GLOSSATA (a suborder of moths)
Order: LEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths)
Division (Zoo.): Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass: Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass: PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class: INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum: HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum: ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum: ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade: Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom: EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom: ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain: Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life: BIOTA (living things)

Polygonia c-album is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Record Summary	Larva, on Nettle
Found as	Larva
Date	21 September 1986
Associated organism	Urtica dioica
OS grid ref	OSGR: SU26
Lat/Lon	51° 20’ N, 1° 40’ W
Vice County	North Wilts, VC no: 7
Country	England

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Polygonia c-album (Linnaeus, 1758), (comma)

21 Sep 1986 at OSGR: SU26 in North Wilts, England

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Polygonia c-album is also a member of:

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