''Speyeria'', commonly known as greater fritillaries, is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
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 ...
commonly found in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Some authors used to consider this taxon a subgenus of ''
Argynnis
''Argynnis'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, one of several groups known as " fritillaries". Its species are commonly found in Europe and Asia.
Systematics
Several current species of ''Argynnis'' used to be included in dist ...
'', but it has been reestablished as a separate genus in 2017.
Species
The genus has 3
species
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in
Eurasia
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(these were formerly known as genus ''Mesoacidalia'', now a synonym of ''Speyeria''):
*'' Speyeria aglaja'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – Dark green fritillary
*'' Speyeria alexandra'' (Ménétriés, 1832)
*'' Speyeria clara'' (Blanchard,
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Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Spring – Battle of Mauropotamos: A Byzantine expedition under ...
Speyeria aphrodite
The Aphrodite fritillary (''Speyeria aphrodite'') is a fritillary butterfly, from North America.
This orange coloured fritillary has rows of dark dots or chevrons at the wing edges and black or brown lines more proximally. The ventral sides of t ...
Speyeria atlantis
''Speyeria atlantis'', the Atlantis fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae of North America. It is from the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador to northern British Columbia, across the northern United States south as far ...
'' (Edwards, 1862) – Atlantis fritillary
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Speyeria hesperis
''Speyeria hesperis'', the northwestern fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the northwestern United States and western Canada, as far east as Manitoba and the Dakotas.Speyeria hydaspe'' (Boisduval, 1869) – Hydaspe fritillary
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Speyeria mormonia
''Speyeria mormonia,'' commonly known as the Mormon fritillary, is a North American butterfly belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It is highly diverse, having differentiated into several subspecies which occupy a wide geographic range. ''S. mor ...
'' (Boisduval, 1869) – Mormon fritillary
References
Further reading
* Glassberg, Jeffrey (2001). ''Butterflies through Binoculars: The West''.
* Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. (2001). ''Butterflies of British Columbia''.
* James, David G. and Nunnallee, David (2011). ''Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies''.
* Pelham, Jonathan (2008). ''Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada''.
* Pyle, Robert Michael (2002). ''The Butterflies of Cascadia''.
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