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Arthropods Daily – Issue No. 594 No. 594 |

Map
Map (Araschnia levana) – species of family “Brush-footed Butterflies“

The map (Araschnia levana) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is common throughout the lowlands of central and eastern Europe, and is expanding its range in western Europe. A. levana was found in northern Scandinavia on May 30, 1973, in south-eastern Finland, in Lauritsala, by a young lepidopterist, Mr Jouko E. Hokka. The specimen was the first known A. levana in northern Europe, excluding Denmark.

Ancestry Graph

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„Map“ also appeared in the following editions of Arthropods Daily