About Vanessa annabella (Field, 1971)
Vanessa annabella, commonly called the West Coast lady, is one of three North American brush-footed butterfly species informally known as "painted ladies". This species lives across most of the western United States and southwestern Canada. The other two painted lady species that occur in North America are the cosmopolitan Vanessa cardui, known as the painted lady, and the eastern North American Vanessa virginiensis, known as the American painted lady. Vanessa annabella has previously been treated as a subspecies of the South American Vanessa carye, and its scientific name is very often misspelled as "anabella".
