Editing Small tortoiseshell (section)

==Technical description==
A bright foxy red ground-colour; the forewing with 3 black costal spots, whose interspaces are yellow, there being a larger black spot in the middle of the hindmarginal area and two smaller ones in the disc between the 3 radial and 2 median; hindwing with the basal half black; both wings with black submarginal band bearing blue spots. Underside of the forewing ochreous, with the costal spots as above, the apex and distal margin blackish; hindwing brown, basal half black with dentate edge, the whole surface with darker pencilling; at the distal margin of both wings contiguous dull blue lunules.<ref>[[Adalbert Seitz|Seitz. A.]] in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, ''Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter'', 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren){{PD-notice}}</ref>

The small tortoiseshell is the [[List of national animals|national butterfly]] of [[Denmark]].<ref name=naturDK>{{cite web|url=http://naturstyrelsen.dk/naturbeskyttelse/artsleksikon/nationalsymboler/|title=Nationalsymboler fra den danske plante- og dyreverden (Danish Ministry of the Environment)|publisher=naturstyrelsen.dk|access-date=9 May 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315024426/http://naturstyrelsen.dk/naturbeskyttelse/artsleksikon/nationalsymboler/|archive-date=15 March 2015}}</ref>