• Source: 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):

Speyeria aglaja (Linnaeus, 1758) – Dark green fritillary
Speyeria alexandra (Ménétriés, 1832)
Speyeria clara (Blanchard, [1844])
and 16 species in North America:

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






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. Bibcode:2017SysEn..42..635D. 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. Bibcode:2020SysEn..45..269C. doi:10.1111/syen.12393.




External links



Butterflies and Moths of North America
Butterflies of America

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Daftar kupu-kupu Jepang
• Speyeria
• Speyeria mormonia
• Great spangled fritillary
• Speyeria atlantis
• Speyeria edwardsii
• Speyeria hesperis
• List of butterflies of Canada
• Regal fritillary
• Speyeria zerene
• List of butterflies of North America (Nymphalidae)