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.[1]

Greater fritillaries
Speyeria cybele feeding on Asclepias tuberosa.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Argynnini
Genus: Speyeria
Scudder, 1872
Species

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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:[1]

References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Speyeria Scudder, 1872". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved October 1, 2019.

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.
  • 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.


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