Vanessa dilecta is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The type locality is West Timor.[1] It is sister to Vanessa buana and is sometimes lumped with that species.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Vanessa |
| Species: | V. dilecta
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| Vanessa dilecta Hanafusa, 1992
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References
edit- ^ "Vanessa Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Wahlberg, Niklas; Rubinoff, Daniel (2011). "Vagility across Vanessa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): mobility in butterfly species does not inhibit the formation and persistence of isolated sister taxa". Systematic Entomology. 36 (2): 362–370. Bibcode:2011SysEn..36..362W. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00566.x.
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