Aglais ichnusa


Aglais ichnusa is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic that belongs to the browns family. It is endemic to Corsica and Sardinia.

Description from Seitz

— ichnusa Bon. is distinguished particularly by the less angulate wings, the deeper red ground-colour, and usually by the absence of the discal and hindmarginal spots of the forewing. Closely allied to the following race , transitions from the nymotypical subspecies to ichnusa occur in the southern districts of the latter. Sardinia, Corsica.