New Zealand red admiral butterfly
- Description
- The Maori name for this species is kahukura and it is only found in New Zealand. This species is in the same genus, Vanessa, as the red admiral butterfly that occurs in the UK. From the Blanchford collection.
- Accession Loan No.
- 56/1958/184
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Common Name
- New Zealand red admiral butterfly
- Simple Name
- insect: butterfly
- Full Name
- NYMPHALIDAE: Vanessa gonerilla (Fabricius, 1775): New Zealand red admiral
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Blanchford, Mr Fred (from the collection of)
- Collection Town
- Wellington
- Collection County
- North Island: Wellington
- Collection Country
- New Zealand
- Collection Area Region
- Australia and New Zealand
- Collection Continent
- Oceania
- Phylum
- ARTHROPODA
- Family
- NYMPHALIDAE
- Genus
- Vanessa
- Species
- gonerilla
