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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)
LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)
DITRYSIA
(the major suborder of moths)
PAPILIONOIDEA
(butterflies)
NYMPHALIDAE
(fritillary and vanessid butterflies)
Nymphalis polychloros
(Large Tortoiseshell)
Nymphalis polychloros
is also a member of:
Macrolepidoptera
(via Papilionoidea)
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Nymphalis polychloros L., 1758 (Large Tortoiseshell)

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Revels, R., 2007, Large Tortoiseshell, British Wildlife, Volume 19, no. 1: 56 (Colour photograph) Large Tortoiseshell

Nymphalis polychloros may also be covered by literature listed under:

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

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 feeding and other relationships of Nymphalis polychloros (Large Tortoiseshell)

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