''Euphydryas asiatica'' is a small
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprise ...
found in the
Palearctic that belongs to the
browns family.
Subspecies
*''E. a. asiatica'' Turkestan, Tarbagatai, Saur, Dzhungarsky Alatau
*''E. a. alexandrina'' (Staudinger, 1887) Tian-Shan
*''E. a. narina'' (Oberthür, 1909) Inner Tian-Shan]
*''Euphydryas asiatica narina'' Korb & Bolshakov, 2011
Taxonomy
''E. asiatica'' is in the subgenus ''Eurodryas'' The
clade members are:
* ''
Euphydryas aurinia
The marsh fritillary (''Euphydryas aurinia'') is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. Commonly distributed in the Palearctic region, the marsh fritillary's common name derives from one of its several habitats, marshland. The prolonged larval s ...
''
(Rottemburg, 1775)
* ''
Euphydryas provincialis
The marsh fritillary (''Euphydryas aurinia'') is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. Commonly distributed in the Palearctic region, the marsh fritillary's common name derives from one of its several habitats, marshland. The prolonged larval s ...
''
(Boisduval, 1828)
* ''
Euphydryas orientalis
''Euphydryas orientalis'' is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic that belongs to the browns family.
Description
Difficult to distinguish from some ''aurinia'' forms.Tusov treats ''orientalis'' as a subspecies
of ''Arinia''
Seitz- ''orie ...
''
(Herrich-Schäffer, 1851)
* ''
Euphydryas asiatica''
(Staudinger, 1881)
* ''
Euphydryas sibirica
''Euphydryas sibirica'' is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in north-eastern Asia, where it is found in steppe or steppe-like meadows.
Adults are on wing from June to July.
The larvae of subspecies ''eothena'' feed on '' Sca ...
''
(Staudinger, 1871)
* ''
Euphydryas laeta
''Euphydryas'' is a genus of 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 t ...
''
(Christoph, 1893)
* ''
Euphydryas desfontainii
''Euphydryas desfontainii'', the Spanish fritillary, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in France, Portugal, Spain, Morocco (the Rif mountains and Middle Atlas) and western Algeria in North Africa.
Description
The ...
''
(Godart, 1819)
References
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Palearctic Lepidoptera
Butterflies described in 1881
Butterflies of Asia
Taxa named by Otto Staudinger