Aglais urticae
Aglais urticae
Family: NymphalidaeGenus: Aglaisheimisch in Deutschland
heimisch in Deutschland
native_regions-Cache · 85 %
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217
Plants
visited
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286
Interactions
documented
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3
Host plants
known
About this species
Aglais urticae is a nymphalid butterfly recorded in Great Britain. It has a multivoltine life cycle and oligophagous larval feeding. The species overwinters as an adult and is active from June to September.
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Plant-based food
Annual cycle
The species is multivoltine, completing multiple generations annually. It overwinters as an adult, with a flight period that runs from June into September.
Merkmale
Körper
Wingspan
4.65 cm
Ernährung & Verhalten
Food
oligophagous
Generationen/Jahr
multivoltine
Overwintering
adult
Scientific profile
Aglais urticae belongs to the family Nymphalidae. It is a multivoltine insect, capable of producing several generations per year. Larvae are oligophagous, feeding on a limited range of host plants. The butterfly passes the winter in the adult stage. Its activity period spans June to September, and it has been recorded in Great Britain.
Visited plants
214 plants are visited by this species
Foeniculum vulgare var. azoricumRanunculus bulbosus subsp. bulbosusJacobaea vulgarisFragaria × ananassaLigustrum vulgareCarlina vulgarisPentanema squarrosumGeranium pyrenaicumMatthiola incanaCarduus nutans subsp. nutansHesperis matronalisSalix fragilisSalix viminalisLinaria repensMentha suaveolensCampanula tracheliumPulicaria dysentericaViola odorataLamium galeobdolon subsp. argentatumImpatiens glanduliferaErigeron karvinskianusEchium vulgareCirsium tuberosumMentha spicataCentaurea scabiosaRosa spinosissimaHypochaeris radicataCalendula officinalisDipsacus fullonumGeranium dissectumLotus corniculatus subsp. hirsutusSalix alba subsp. coeruleaComarum palustreCampanula glomerata subsp. glomerataRibes uva-crispaTrifolium hybridumSilene dioicaViola tricolorGeranium phaeum subsp. phaeumSaponaria officinalisLamium albumStachys officinaliscotoneaster bullatusRanunculus aquatilisBrassica oleracea subsp. oleraceaRanunculus linguaRosa canina var. dumalisLobularia maritimaMyosotis arvensis subsp. arvensisSymphytum officinale
Sources & Data Origin
•TraitCH — CC BY 4.0TraitCH 2.0 contributors; imported as source-preserving NaturKompass taxon evidence.
•Interaktionsdaten via GloBI (CC-BY 4.0)
•Cook et al. (2025) UK Butterfly & Moth Traits (DOI: 10.5285/dbc7cc17-cbbd-49dd-bab4-8e8855768d66)
•Neff et al. (2025) — Swiss Moth Traits, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14506883 (CC BY)
•GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — GBIF Secretariat (2024), DOI: 10.15468/39omei (CC BY 4.0)
•Seifert & Fiedler (2023) — Macroecological patterns in European butterflies unveil strong interrelations between larval diet breadth, latitudinal range size, and voltinism [Dataset]. Dryad, DOI: 10.5061/dryad.9zw3r22mp (CC0)
•Foto: Philipp Eckardt
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