Aglais ichnusa is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic that belongs to the browns family.

(62f ) is distinguished particularly by the less angulate wings, the deeper red ground-colour, and usually by the absence of the discal and hindmarginal spots of the forewing.

Closely allied to the following race [turcica Stgr.

now Aglais urticae turcica (Staudinger, 1871)], transitions from the nymotypical subspecies to ichnusa occur in the southern districts of the latter.

[3] Larvae of Aglais ichnusa feed on Urtica atrovirens and Urtica dioica.