Dark green fritillary

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Dark green fritillary
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Male, Val d'Aosta, Italy
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Female, Elsenborn, Belgium
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Speyeria
Species:
S. aglaja
Binomial name
Speyeria aglaja
Synonyms [3]
List
  • Papilio aglaia (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Papilio aglaja Linnaeus, 1758
  • Argynnis mitchelli Kershaw, 1952
  • Argynnis robnora Kershaw, 1952
  • Argynnis smrzi Slabý, 1949
  • Argynnis ovalis Cabeau, 1930
  • Argynnis molybdina Newnham, 1917
  • Argynnis viridiatra Strand, 1912
  • Argynnis gutta Wileman, 1911
  • Mesoachidalia plutus Oberthür, 1909
  • Argynnis fusca Tutt, 1896
  • Argynnis fuscans Tutt, 1896
  • Argynnis pallida Tutt, 1896
  • Argynnis wimani Holmgren, 1888
  • Argynnis aberrans Lampa, 1885
  • Argynnis aglaja (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Argynnis aurea Tutt, 1896
  • Argynnis eridioides Pflümer, 1879
  • Argynnis charlotta Haworth, 1803
  • Argynnis emilia Acerbi, 1802
  • Mesoacidalia sinenigra Aagesen
  • Speyeria albomaculata Rebel
  • Speyeria emilocuples Warren, 1955
  • Speyeria hindenburgi Schuster von Forstner, 1928
  • Speyeria arvernensis Bramson, 1890

The dark green fritillary (Speyeria aglaja) is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. The insect has a wide range in the Palearctic realm - Europe, Morocco, Iran, Siberia, Central Asia, China, Korea, and Japan.

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Description in Seitz

The large fritillary is fiery reddish yellow above, the basal area of the male being always duller. The markings are constant: a black margin, a row of deep black but thin marginal arcs, a very straight, central row of dots, of which only the last one of the forewing is shifted distad; between this row of dots and the base there are six thin black transverse bands extending from the subcostal vein into the wing. The underside of the hindwing is characteristic; it bears numerous silver-spots on a partly verdigris partly leather-yellow ground, but never a row of ocelli in the marginal area, as is the case in the forms of the Niobe fritillary (Fabriciana niobe) and high brown fritillary (F. adippe). [4]

Subspecies

United Kingdom

In the UK the habitat is often pastures and flowery banks, and nearby areas where the preferred food plants for the larvae, Viola canina and Viola riviniana , grow.

The dark green fritillary uses violets within bracken mosaics frequently consisting of one-third bracken and two-thirds grass, often on the edges of suitable high brown fritillary habitat. Their distribution can be found on the NBN website.

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References

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  4. Seitz. A. in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .