Speyeria

Greater fritillaries
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
Species

See text.

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]

References

  1. Butterfly Taxonomy, UK Butterflies
  2. Speyeria, funet.fi
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