Butterfly-Comma
by Mircea V.
Family - NYMPHALIDAE.
The Comma was regarded as a common species in the 18th century, but declined and became a great rarity between about 1850 and 1910.
The butterfly gets it's vernacular and species names from the C or comma-shaped silver mark on the underside of the hindwings. The generic name Polygonia is a reference to the beautiful ragged wing shape.
The Comma is distributed across most of Europe, but absent from Scotland, Ireland and northern Scandinavia. Beyond Europe it occurs across temperate Asia to northern China, Korea and Japan. It also occurs in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
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