Speyeria
| Greater fritillaries | |
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| Speyeria cybele feeding on Asclepias tuberosa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Heliconiinae |
| Genus: | Argynnis |
| Subgenus: | Speyeria Scudder, 1872 |
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Speyeria, commonly known as greater fritillaries, is the subgenus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae commonly found in North America and Asia. Recently this taxon was made a subgenus of Argynnis.[1]
Species
Listed alphabetically.[2]
- Speyeria adiaste (Edwards, 1864) – Unsilvered fritillary or Adiaste fritillary
- Speyeria alexandra (Ménétriés, 1832)
- Speyeria aphrodite (Fabricius, 1787) – Aphrodite fritillary
- Speyeria atlantis (Edwards, 1862) – Atlantis fritillary
- Speyeria callippe (Boisduval, 1852) – Callippe fritillary
- Speyeria carolae (dos Passos & Grey, 1942) – Carol's fritillary
- Speyeria clara (Blanchard, 1844)
- Speyeria coronis (Behr, 1864) – Coronis fritillary
- Speyeria cybele (Fabricius, 1775) – Great spangled fritillary
- Speyeria diana (Cramer, 1777) – Diana fritillary
- Speyeria edwardsii (Reakirt, 1866) – Edward's fritillary
- Speyeria egleis (Behr, 1863) – Egleis fritillary
- Speyeria hesperis (Edwards, 1864) – Northwestern fritillary
- Speyeria hydaspe (Boisduval, 1869) – Hydaspe fritillary
- Speyeria idalia (Drury, 1773) – Regal fritillary
- Speyeria mormonia (Boisduval, 1869) – Mormon fritillary
- Speyeria nokomis (Edwards, 1862) – Nokomis fritillary
- Speyeria zerene (Boisduval, 1852) – Zerene fritillary
References
- ↑ Butterfly Taxonomy, UK Butterflies
- ↑ Speyeria, funet.fi
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Further reading
- Glassberg, Jeffrey (2001). Butterflies through Binoculars, The West.
- Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. (2001). Butterflies of British Columbia.
- James, David G. and Nunnallee, David (2011). Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies.
- Pelham, Jonathan (2008). Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada.
- Pyle, Robert Michael (2002). The Butterflies of Cascadia.
External links
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