Nymphalidae

Nymphalidae
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Cless:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfaimily:	Papilionoidea
Faimily:	Nymphalidae Rafinesque, 1815
Subfaimilies
Apaturinae Biblidinae Calinaginae Charaxinae Cyrestinae Danainae Heliconiinae Libytheinae Limenitidinae Morphinae Nymphalinae Satyrinae and see airticle text
Diversity
Ower 600 genera Aboot 5,700 species

Nymphalidae is the lairgest faimily o butterflees wi aboot 6,000 species distribute atouer maist o the warld. Thae are uisually medium sized tae lairge butterflies. Maist species hae a reduced pair o forelegs an mony hauld thair colourfu wings flat whan restin. Thay are forby cried brush-fitit butterflees or fower-fitit butterflees. Mony species is bricht coloured an include popular species like the emperors, admirals, tortoiseshells, an fritillaries. Housomever, the unnerwings is in contrast aften dull an in some species leuk remerkable like deid leafs, or is a fair feckfaucher, producin a cryptic effect that helps the butterflee disappear intae its surroondins.

Example species frae this faimily

• Airchdukes, genus Lexias
• California Tortoiseshell, Nymphalis californica
• Comma, Polygonia c-album
• Common Buckee, Junonia coenia
• Common Snout Butterflee, Libytheana carinenta
• Cracker butterflees, genus Hamadryas
• Crimson Patch, Chlosyne janais
• Lorquin's Admiral, Limenitis lorquini
• Marsh Fritillary, Euphydryas aurinia
• Witchie, Maniola jurtina
• Mournin Cloak, Nymphalis antiopa
• Monarch Butterflee, Danaus plexippus
• Blue Morpho, Morpho menelaus
• Pentit Lady, Vanessa cardui
• Peacock, Inachis io
• Question Mark, Polygonia interrogationis
• Reid Admiral, Vanessa atalanta
• Smaa Heath, Coenonympha pamphilus
• Smaa Tortoiseshell, Nymphalis urticae

Further Readin

• Glassberg, Jeffrey Butterflies through Binoculars, The West (2001)
• Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. Butterflies of British Columbia (2001)
• James, David G. and Nunnallee, David Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies (2011)
• Pelham, Jonathan Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (2008)
• Pyle, Robert Michael The Butterflies of Cascadia (2002)

Freemita airtins

• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility (2003): Faimily Nymphalidae
• Faimily Nymphalidae Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine at Lepidoptera.pro
• Nymphalidae Systematics Group Archived 2007-08-10 at the Wayback Machine at the Varsity o Turku
• Peter Chew: Danaids an Brouns - Faimily Nymphalidae, Brisbane butterflees wab steid (2005).
• Tree o Life Wab Project: Nymphalidae Archived 2020-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
• Nymphalidae frae aw ower the warld Archived 2017-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Butterflees an Mochs o North Americae
• Butterflees o Americae