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Definition of Red-spotted purple
1. Noun. Similar to the banded purple but with red spots on underwing surfaces.
Generic synonyms: Brush-footed Butterfly, Four-footed Butterfly, Nymphalid, Nymphalid Butterfly
Group relationships: Genus Limenitis, Limenitis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red-spotted Purple
Literary usage of Red-spotted purple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Every-day Butterflies: A Group of Biographies by Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1899)
"... —THE RED- SPOTTED PURPLE WE come now to discuss, one after the other, a couple
of butterflies belonging to a genus which is peculiarly North American, ..."
2. A Manual for the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"North of this region, of these three forms only the Banded Purple occurs ; south
of it only the red-spotted purple is found. ..."
3. How to Know the Butterflies: A Manual of the Butterflies of the Eastern by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1904)
"For beautiful and rich iridescence nothing can surpass the upper side of the
wings of the red- spotted purple when it is flitting about in the sunshine. ..."
4. Papilio by Henry Edwards, Eugene Murray-Aaron, New York Entomological Club (1881)
"... this information may be obtained by reference to a glossary in the appendix.
Let us analyze one of the expressions, for example the Red Spotted Purple. ..."
5. Field Book of Insects: With Special Reference to Those of Northeastern by Frank Eugene Lutz (1918)
"... one pair of which is on the head. It is a southern species which gets as far
north as New England. The upper side of the red-spotted purple ..."
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