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Nymphalidae

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Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera
family
Nymphalidae

Name

Homonyms
Nymphalidae
Common names
Brushfooted Butterflies in English
admirals in English
anglewings in English
brush-footed butterflies in English
brush-footed butterfly in English
brushfoot butterflies in English
checker-spots in English
crescent-spots in English
fritillaries in English
mourningclocks in English
purples in English
schoenlappers, parelmoervlinders en zandoogjes in Dutch
Nymphalids in English
nymfevinger in Norwegian Bokmål
praktfjärilar in Swedish
takvinger in Danish
täpläperhoset in Finnish
ädelfjärilar in Swedish

Bibliographic References

  1. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  2. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  3. Eliasson, U, Ryrholm, Holmer, Jilg & Gärdenfors (2005) Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna. Dagfjärilar. Hesperiidae-Nymphalidae
  4. Elmquist, H., Liljeberg, G., Top-Jensen, M. & Fibiger, M. (2011) Sveriges fjärilar - En fälthandbok över Sveriges samtliga dag- och nattfjärilar. Østermarie 2011. 749 pp.
  5. Fauna Europaea (2013) Fauna Europaea, v. 2.6.2: http://www.faunaeur.org/
  6. Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer).
  7. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 99 Addition to the Official List of Fainily-group names in Zoology of the names of certain family-Gi Oup taxa belonging to the order Lepidoptera (class Insecta), the names of the type genera of which have already been placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1F, 161-174 (1958)
  8. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  9. Pelham, Jonathan P., 2008: A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada with a complete bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, vol. 40. xiv + 658.
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