Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758);  Comments: nearly cosmopolitan as vagrant; uncommon or vagrant in W. Indies TL: Sweden.

Vanessa cardui (TYPE of Cynthia cardui jacksoni A. Clark, 1927, TL: USA ([Ma]/Ca); Mongolia; France)
Photo taken by Gerardo Lamas and digitized by the Tropical Andean Butterfly Diversity Project, funded by the Darwin Initiative.
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