Euphydryas
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Euphydryas phaeton, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | |
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Genus: | Euphydryas Scudder, 1872
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Euphydryas is a genus of Nymphalidae butterflies.
Species[1]
Euphydryas species group:
- Euphydryas phaeton (Drury, 1773) – Baltimore checkerspot
Hypodryas species group [subgenus]:
- Euphydryas maturna (Linnaeus, 1758) – scarce fritillary
- Euphydryas ichnea (Boisduval, 1833)
- Euphydryas cynthia (Schiffermüller, 1775) – Cynthia's fritillary
- Euphydryas iduna (Dalman, 1816) – Lapland fritillary
- Euphydryas gillettii (Barnes, 1897) – Gillette's checkerspot
Occidryas species group[subgenus]:
- Euphydryas anicia (Doubleday, 1847) – Anicia checkerspot
- Euphydryas chalcedona (Doubleday, 1847) – Chalcedon checkerspot or variable checkerspot
- Euphydryas editha (Boisduval, 1852) – Edith's checkerspot
- Euphydryas editha bayensis – Bay checkerspot
- Euphydryas editha quino – Quino checkerspot
Eurodryas species group [subgenus]:
- Euphydryas aurinia (Rottemburg, 1775) – marsh fritillary (= Euphydryas glaciegenita (Verity, 1928), as replacement name for Papilio merope de Prunner, 1798, nec Papilio merope Fabricius, 1775) types absent
- Euphydryas provincialis (Boisduval, 1828) type unknown
- Euphydryas orientalis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851) lectotype in the Zoologisches Museum an der Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
- Euphydryas asiatica (Staudinger, 1881) lectotype in the Zoologisches Museum an der Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
- Euphydryas sibirica (Staudinger, 1871) lectotype in the Zoologisches Museum an der Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
- Euphydryas laeta (Cristoph, 1893) lectotype in the Zoologisches Museum an der Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
- Euphydryas desfontainii (Godart, 1819) – Spanish fritillary types unknown
References
Zimmermann, Marie; Niklas Wahlberg; Henri Descimon (May 2000). "Phylogeny of Euphydryas Checkerspot Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Based on Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Data". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 93 (3): 347–355. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2000)093[0347:POECBL]2.0.CO;2. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
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Further reading
- Glassberg, Jeffrey Butterflies through Binoculars: The West (2001)
- Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. Butterflies of British Columbia (2001)
- James, David G. and Nunnallee, David Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies (2011)
- Pelham, Jonathan Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (2008)
- Pyle, Robert Michael The Butterflies of Cascadia (2002)
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