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Photo title: The map, Araschnia levana is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae
Author: Georginevs

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The map Araschnia levana is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is common throughout the lowlands of central and eastern Europe, and is expanding its range in western Europe. A. levana was found in northern Scandinavia on May 30, 1973, in south-eastern Finland, in Lauritsala, by a young lepidopterist, Mr Jouko E. Hokka. The specimen was the first known A. levana in northern Europe, excluding Denmark. In the UK this species is a very rare vagrant, but there have also been several unsuccessful â€“ and now illegal â€“ attempts at introducing this species over the past 100 years or so: in the Wye Valley in 1912, the Wyre Forest in the 1920s, South Devon 1942, Worcester 1960s, Cheshire 1970s, South Midlands 1990s. All these introductions failed and eggs or larvae have never been recorded in the wild in the UK. Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 it is now illegal to release a non-native species into the wild.

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