genus

VanessaFabricius, 1807

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species
17out of 3155% covered
images
6,509

Counts cover images whose name resolved to a species accepted by Catalogue of Life, so they can be lower than the totals on the Collections page. Totals and percentages compare them with the accepted families, genera and species Catalogue of Life places in this taxon.

Species in this genus

Morphospace

Variation in species coloration mapped onto the latent space. Each species is represented by two points, one for its dorsal side and one for its ventral side. The farther apart the dorsal and ventral points are, the more different the two sides are in coloration.

Classification

  • genusVanessa17 species6,509 images
    • speciesVanessa aequatorialisWagner, 1872
    • speciesVanessa altissima(Rosenberg & Talbot, 1914)5 images
    • speciesVanessa amerindica
    • speciesVanessa annabella(Field, 1971)158 images
    • speciesVanessa ardeaFruhstorfer
    • speciesVanessa atalanta(Linnaeus, 1758)2,641 images
    • speciesVanessa atovinaHeer, 1850
    • speciesVanessa braziliensis(Moore, 1883)58 images
    • speciesVanessa canace(Linnaeus, 1763)recorded as Kaniska canace54 images
    • speciesVanessa cardui(Linnaeus, 1758)2,491 images
    • speciesVanessa carye(Hübner, 1812)236 images
    • speciesVanessa caschmirensisKollar, 1848
    • speciesVanessa chinganensisKleinschmidt, 1929
    • speciesVanessa connexaButler, 1881
    • speciesVanessa cyanomelasDoubleday
    • speciesVanessa dejeani(Godart, 1823)11 images
    • speciesVanessa dulcineaSheljuzhko, 1960
    • speciesVanessa glauconiaMotschulsky, 1860
    • speciesVanessa gonerilla(Fabricius, 1775)17 images
    • speciesVanessa indica(Herbst, 1794)111 images
    • speciesVanessa itea(Fabricius, 1775)61 images
    • speciesVanessa karaganicaNekrutenko, 1969
    • speciesVanessa kershawi(McCoy, 1868)51 images
    • speciesVanessa lytreaGodart, 1819
    • speciesVanessa myrinna(Doubleday, 1849)26 images
    • speciesVanessa samani(Hagen, 1894)
    • speciesVanessa tameamea(Eschscholtz, 1821)33 images
    • speciesVanessa terpsichore(Philippi, 1860)9 images
    • speciesVanessa vetula
    • speciesVanessa virginiensis(Drury, 1773)536 images
    • speciesVanessa vulcaniaGodart, 181911 images

Linked species have records in the collection. Species in grey are in the Catalogue of Life classification but have no images here yet.

Source: Catalogue of Life (v2026-08-26 XR)