Euphydryas is a genus of Nymphalidae butterflies.

Euphydryas
Euphydryas phaeton, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Melitaeini
Genus: Euphydryas
Scudder, 1872

Species

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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

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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.

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

Further reading

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  • 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)
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