---
title: "Cardinal Butterfly"
description: "Argynnis pandora — Insetos e aranhas. Argynnis pandora, the cardinal, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/cardinal-butterfly
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cardinal Butterfly

> Argynnis pandora — Insetos e aranhas. Argynnis pandora, the cardinal, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

- Scientific name: *Argynnis pandora*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 10036
- Wikidata: [Q691376](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q691376)
- iNaturalist taxon: [147328](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/147328)

## Names

- en: Cardinal Butterfly
- de: Kardinal
- es: Mariposa Pandora
- fr: Cardinal
- nl: Kardinaalsmantel
- pl: Dostojka pandora

## Countries with the most observations

ES (2853), UA (1263), HU (965), FR (596), PT (578), RU (500), TR (410), RO (352), BG (293), GR (254), HR (222), IT (215)

## Summary

Argynnis pandora, the cardinal, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is common throughout southern Europe and is also found in northern Africa and the Middle east and then east across the Palearctic to the Tian-Shan andnorthwestern India.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argynnis_pandora

## Photo

![Cardinal Butterfly](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/cardinal-butterfly/medium.jpg)

Photo: Teresa Prandi · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/118821634

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/cardinal-butterfly?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).