EditorialNymphalis, Print, Nymphalis, commonly known as the tortoiseshells or anglewing butterflies, is a genus of brush-footed butterflies. The genera Aglais, Inachis, Polygonia and Kaniska, were sometimes included as subgenera of Nymphalis but they are by som...
EditorialAnartia, Print, Anartia is a genus of butterflies in family Nymphalidae, and subfamily Nymphalinae, found in tropical and subtropical areas in the Americas. The butterflies are known as peacocks, although the common European peacock (Inachis io) is not...
EditorialMourning cloak, Nymphalis antiopa 1, European peacock, Inachis io 2, and red admiral, Vanessa atalanta 3, butterfly, caterpillar and pupa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Childr...
EditorialWater betony moth, Shargacucullia scrophulariae, and European peacock, Inachis io. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Moses Harris from "The Aurelian; a Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies," new edition edited by J. O. Westwo...
EditorialEuropean peacock butterfly, Inachis io, caterpillar and pupa. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1799. Most of the...