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Euphydryas
Euphydryas is a genus of Nymphalidae butterflies.
| Euphydryas | |
|---|---|
| Euphydryas phaeton, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Melitaeini |
| Genus: | Euphydryas Scudder, 1872 |
Species edit
| Subgenus[1] | Butterfly | Caterpillar | Species | Common Name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euphydryas | Euphydryas phaeton (Drury, 1773) | Baltimore checkerspot | North America | ||
| Hypodryas | Euphydryas maturna (Linnaeus, 1758) | scarce fritillary | Austria, 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, 2015 | Italy | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Euphydryas cynthia (Schiffermüller, 1775) | Cynthia's fritillary | Bulgaria | |||
| Euphydryas iduna (Dalman, 1816) | Lapland fritillary | Arctic Europe, Arctic Asia, Caucasus Major, Alatau, Russian Far East, Altai, Sayan | |||
| Euphydryas gillettii (Barnes, 1897) | Gillette's checkerspot | British Columbia to Oregon and from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. | |||
| Occidryas | Euphydryas anicia (Doubleday, 1847) | Anicia checkerspot | North America | ||
| Euphydryas chalcedona (Doubleday, 1847) | Chalcedon checkerspot or variable checkerspot | Rocky Mountains into Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming. | |||
| Euphydryas editha (Boisduval, 1852) | Edith's checkerspot | southern British Columbia and Alberta south to Baja California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado | |||
| Eurodryas | Euphydryas aurinia (Rottemburg, 1775) | marsh fritillary | Ireland in the west to Yakutia in the east, and to north-west China and Mongolia in the south | ||
| 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 (Godart, 1819) | Spanish fritillary | France, Spain, Morocco |
References edit
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.
- ^ Euphydryas at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Further reading edit
- 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)
External links edit
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