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Arthropods Daily – Issue No. 408 No. 408 |

European Peacock Butterfly
European Peacock Butterfly (Aglais io) – species of family “Brush-footed Butterflies“

Aglais io, the European peacock, more commonly known simply as the peacock butterfly, is a colourful butterfly, found in Europe and temperate Asia as far east as Japan. Formerly classified as the only member of the genus Inachis (the name is derived from Greek mythology, meaning Io, the daughter of Inachus). It should not be confused or classified with the "American peacocks" in the genus Anartia; these are not close relatives of the Eurasian species. The...

Ancestry Graph

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„European Peacock Butterfly“ also appeared in the following editions of Arthropods Daily