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.[1]
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| Speyeria cybele feeding on Asclepias tuberosa. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Argynnini |
| Genus: | Speyeria Scudder, 1872 |
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Species edit
The genus has 3 species in Eurasia (these were formerly known as genus Mesoacidalia, now a synonym of Speyeria):
- Speyeria aglaja (Linnaeus, 1758) – Dark green fritillary
- Speyeria alexandra (Ménétriés, 1832)
- Speyeria clara (Blanchard, [1844])
and 16 species in North America:[1]
- Speyeria diana (Cramer, [1777]) – Diana fritillary
- Speyeria cybele (Fabricius, 1775) – great spangled fritillary
- Speyeria aphrodite (Fabricius, 1787) – Aphrodite fritillary
- Speyeria idalia (Drury, [1773]) – regal fritillary
- Speyeria nokomis (Edwards, 1862) – Nokomis fritillary
- Speyeria edwardsii (Reakirt, 1866) – Edward's fritillary
- Speyeria coronis (Behr, 1864) – Coronis fritillary
- Speyeria zerene (Boisduval, 1852) – zerene fritillary
- Speyeria carolae (dos Passos & Grey, 1942) – Carole's fritillary
- Speyeria callippe (Boisduval, 1852) – callippe fritillary
- Speyeria egleis (Behr, 1863) – Egleis fritillary
- Speyeria adiaste (Edwards, 1864) – unsilvered fritillary or Adiaste fritillary
- Speyeria atlantis (Edwards, 1862) – Atlantis fritillary
- Speyeria hesperis (Edwards, 1864) – northwestern fritillary
- Speyeria hydaspe (Boisduval, 1869) – Hydaspe fritillary
- Speyeria mormonia (Boisduval, 1869) – Mormon fritillary
References edit
- ^ a b Savela, Markku. "Speyeria Scudder, 1872". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
Further reading edit
- 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.
- De Moya, Robert S.; Savage, Wesley K.; Tenney, Chris; Bao, Xiaoshan; Wahlberg, Niklas; Hill, Ryan I. (2017). "Interrelationships and diversification of Argynnis Fabricius and Speyeria Scudder butterflies". Systematic Entomology. 42 (4): 635–649. doi:10.1111/syen.12236.
- Campbell, Erin O.; Gage, Edward V.; Gage, Randy V.; Sperling, Felix A. H. (2020). "Single nucleotide polymorphism‐based species phylogeny of greater fritillary butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Speyeria) demonstrates widespread mitonuclear discordance". Systematic Entomology. 45 (2): 269–280. doi:10.1111/syen.12393.
External links edit
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