Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)

Common names

🇬🇧 Painted Lady
🇫🇷 Vanesse des Chardons, Belle-Dame, Vanesse de L’Artichaut, Vanesse du Chardon, Nymphe des Chardons

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Nymphalinae
Tribe: Nymphalini
Genus: Vanessa
Species: Vanessa cardui

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Photographs

img/vanessa-cardui-2.webp — Vanessa cardui foraging on a flower of Knautia integrifolia

img/vanessa-cardui.webp — Vanessa cardui

Sources

van Swaay, C., Ellis, S., & Warren, M. (2025). Vanessa cardui (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2025. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/174379/211421212