Euphydryas
| Euphydryas | |
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| Euphydryas phaeton, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Nymphalinae |
| Tribe: | Melitaeini |
| Genus: | Euphydryas Scudder, 1872 |
Euphydryas is a genus of Nymphalidae butterfly.
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): pp. 347–355. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2000)093[0347:POECBL]2.0.CO;2. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
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- ↑ Euphydryas, funet.fi
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)