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Speyeria

Speyeria, commonly known as greater fritillaries, is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae commonly found in North America, Europe, and Asia. Some authors used to consider this taxon a subgenus of Argynnis, but it has been reestablished as a separate genus in 2017.

Species

The genus has 3 species in Eurasia (these were formerly known as genus Mesoacidalia, now a synonym of Speyeria):

and 16 species in North America:

  • Speyeria diana <small>(Cramer, [1777])</small> – Diana fritillary
  • Speyeria cybele <small>(Fabricius, 1775)</small> – great spangled fritillary
  • Speyeria aphrodite <small>(Fabricius, 1787)</small> – Aphrodite fritillary
  • Speyeria idalia <small>(Drury, [1773])</small> – regal fritillary
  • Speyeria nokomis <small>(Edwards, 1862)</small> – Nokomis fritillary
  • Speyeria edwardsii <small>(Reakirt, 1866)</small> – Edward's fritillary
  • Speyeria coronis <small>(Behr, 1864)</small> – Coronis fritillary
  • Speyeria zerene <small>(Boisduval, 1852)</small> – zerene fritillary
  • Speyeria carolae <small>(dos Passos & Grey, 1942)</small> – Carole's fritillary
  • Speyeria callippe <small>(Boisduval, 1852)</small> – callippe fritillary
  • Speyeria egleis <small>(Behr, 1863)</small> – Egleis fritillary
  • Speyeria adiaste <small>(Edwards, 1864)</small> – unsilvered fritillary or Adiaste fritillary
  • Speyeria atlantis <small>(Edwards, 1862)</small> – Atlantis fritillary
  • Speyeria hesperis <small>(Edwards, 1864)</small> – northwestern fritillary
  • Speyeria hydaspe <small>(Boisduval, 1869)</small> – Hydaspe fritillary
  • Speyeria mormonia <small>(Boisduval, 1869)</small> – Mormon fritillary

References

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.

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