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''Euphydryas anicia'', the anicia checkerspot, is a species in the family of butterflies known as
Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...
. It was first described by
Edward Doubleday Edward Doubleday (9 October 1810 – 14 December 1849) was an English entomologist primarily interested in Lepidoptera. He is best known for ''The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: Comprising Their Generic Characters, a Notice of Their Habits and ...
in 1847 and it is found in North America. The MONA or Hodges number for ''Euphydryas anicia'' is 4519.


Subspecies

These 24 subspecies belong to ''Euphydryas anicia'': * ''Euphydryas anicia alena'' Barnes & Benjamin, 1926 i * ''Euphydryas anicia anicia'' (E. Doubleday, 1847) i b (anicia checkerspot) * ''Euphydryas anicia bakeri'' D. Stallings & Turner, 1945 i * ''Euphydryas anicia bernadetta'' Leussler, 1920 i * ''Euphydryas anicia brucei'' (W. H. Edwards, 1888) i b * ''Euphydryas anicia capella'' (Barnes, 1897) i b (capella checkerspot) * ''Euphydryas anicia carmentis'' Barnes & Benjamin, 1926 i b * ''Euphydryas anicia chuskae'' (Ferris & R. Holland, 1980) i * ''Euphydryas anicia cloudcrofti'' (Ferris & R. Holland, 1980) i b (Sacramento Mountain checkerspot) * ''Euphydryas anicia effi'' D. Stallings & Turner, 1945 i * ''Euphydryas anicia eurytion'' (Mead, 1875) i b (anicia checkerspot) * ''Euphydryas anicia helvia'' (Scudder, 1869) i * ''Euphydryas anicia hermosa'' (W. G. Wright, 1905) i b (Catalina mountain checkerspot) * ''Euphydryas anicia hopfingeri'' Gunder, 1934 i b (Hopfinger's checkerspot) * ''Euphydryas anicia howlandi'' D. Stallings & Turner, 1947 i * ''Euphydryas anicia macyi'' Fender & Jewett, 1953 i * ''Euphydryas anicia magdalena'' Barnes & McDunnough, 1918 i b (White Mountain checkerspot) * ''Euphydryas anicia maria'' (Skinner, 1899) i * ''Euphydryas anicia morandi'' Gunder, 1928 i * ''Euphydryas anicia variicolor'' Baughman & Murphy, 1998 i * ''Euphydryas anicia veazieae'' Fender & Jewett, 1953 i * ''Euphydryas anicia wecoeut'' M. Fisher, Spomer & Scott, 2006 i b (anicia checkerspot) * ''Euphydryas anicia wheeleri'' (Hy. Edwards, 1881) i b * ''Euphydryas anicia windi'' Gunder, 1932 i b (Wind's checkerspot) Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net


References


Further reading

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External links

* Euphydryas Articles created by Qbugbot {{nymphalinae-stub