Euphydryas

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Euphydryas
Baltimore Checkerspot.jpg
Euphydryas phaeton , Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Melitaeini
Genus: Euphydryas
Scudder, 1872

Euphydryas is a genus of Nymphalidae butterflies.

Species

Subgenus [1] ButterflyCaterpillarSpeciesCommon nameDistribution
Euphydryas Baltimore Checkerspot, Shirleys Bay.jpg Euphydryas phaeton larva.jpg Euphydryas phaeton (Drury, 1773)Baltimore checkerspotNorth America
Hypodryas Euphydryas maturna - Scarce fritillary - Shashechnitsa maturna (26280073977).jpg Euphydryas maturna (larva) - Scarce fritillary (caterpillar) - Shashechnitsa maturna (gusenitsa) (40439966364).jpg Euphydryas maturna (Linnaeus, 1758)scarce fritillaryAustria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Sweden.
Euphydryas italica Back, Haussmann, Salk & Weiss, 2015Italy
Heckenkirschen-Scheckenfalter - Euphydryas intermedia - 2.jpg Euphydryas intermedia (Ménétriés, 1859)Alps, Middle and South Ural, in the taiga zone and the West Siberian Lowland, South Siberia and the Russian Far East, Sakhalin, Mongolia, Northeast China, North Korea
Euphydryas ichnea (Boisduval, 1833)Urals to Sakhalin; the Alps, Mongolia, NE. China, Korea
Veilchen-Scheckenfalter Euphydryas cynthia 3.JPG Cynthias fritillary Euphydryas cynthia larva (4806530514).jpg Euphydryas cynthia (Schiffermüller, 1775)Cynthia's fritillaryBulgaria
(MHNT) Euphydryas iduna iduna - Abisko Paddos - Suede - male dorsal.jpg Euphydryas iduna (Dalman, 1816)Lapland fritillaryArctic Europe, Arctic Asia, Caucasus Major, Alatau, Russian Far East, Altai, Sayan
Euphydryas gillettii, female.jpg Euphydryas gillettii (Barnes, 1897)Gillette's checkerspotBritish Columbia to Oregon and from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.
Occidryas Euphydryas anicia hopfingeri P1050203c.jpg Euphydryas anicia (Doubleday, 1847)Anicia checkerspotNorth America
Euphydryas chalcedona chalcedona-Male-5.jpg Euphydryas chalcedona (Doubleday, 1847)Chalcedon checkerspot or variable checkerspotRocky Mountains into Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming.
Edith's Checkerspot - Euphydryas editha, Packer Lake, California - 25541841463.jpg Euphydryas editha (Boisduval, 1852)Edith's checkerspotsouthern British Columbia and Alberta south to Baja California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado
Eurodryas Nymphalidae - Euphydryas aurinia-001.JPG Marsh Fritillary - Euphydryas aurinia (13926096034).jpg Euphydryas aurinia (Rottemburg, 1775)marsh fritillaryIreland in the west to Yakutia in the east, and to north-west China and Mongolia in the south
Euphydryas aurinia beckeri.jpg Euphydryas beckeri (Lederer, 1853)France
Euphydryas discordia Bolshakov & Korb, 2013 Russia, Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia, N. Caucasus
Euphydryas orientalis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851)Russian Federation (Urals) Turkey, Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan
Euphydryas asiatica (Staudinger, 1881)Kazakhstan, Dzhungarsky Alatau, Tian Shan
Euphydryas sibirica (Staudinger, 1871)north-eastern Asia
Euphydryas laeta (Christoph, 1893)Kazakhstan
Euphydryas-desfontainii.JPG Euphydryas desfontainii eruga.JPG Euphydryas desfontainii (Godart, 1819)Spanish fritillaryFrance, Spain, Morocco

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 .

Contents

  1. Euphydryas at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Further reading