Speyeria

Speyeria, commonly known as greater fritillaries, is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae commonly found in North America, Europe, and Asia. Some authors used to consider this taxon a subgenus of Argynnis, but it has been reestablished as a separate genus in 2017.^[1]

Greater fritillaries
Speyeria cybele feeding on Asclepias tuberosa.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Argynnini
Genus:	Speyeria Scudder, 1872
Species
See text
Synonyms
Mesoacidalia Reuss, 1926 Neoacidalia Reuss, 1926 Proacidalia Reuss, 1926 Semnopsyche Scudder, 1875

Species

The genus has 3 species in Eurasia (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, [1844])

and 16 species in North America:^[1]

• Speyeria diana (Cramer, [1777]) – Diana fritillary
• Speyeria cybele (Fabricius, 1775) – great spangled fritillary
• Speyeria aphrodite (Fabricius, 1787) – Aphrodite fritillary
• Speyeria idalia (Drury, [1773]) – regal fritillary
• Speyeria nokomis (Edwards, 1862) – Nokomis fritillary
• Speyeria edwardsii (Reakirt, 1866) – Edward's fritillary
• Speyeria coronis (Behr, 1864) – Coronis fritillary
• Speyeria zerene (Boisduval, 1852) – zerene fritillary
• Speyeria carolae (dos Passos & Grey, 1942) – Carole's fritillary
• Speyeria callippe (Boisduval, 1852) – callippe fritillary
• Speyeria egleis (Behr, 1863) – Egleis fritillary
• Speyeria adiaste (Edwards, 1864) – unsilvered fritillary or Adiaste fritillary
• Speyeria atlantis (Edwards, 1862) – Atlantis fritillary
• Speyeria hesperis (Edwards, 1864) – northwestern fritillary
• Speyeria hydaspe (Boisduval, 1869) – Hydaspe fritillary
• Speyeria mormonia (Boisduval, 1869) – Mormon fritillary

References

1. Savela, Markku. "Speyeria Scudder, 1872". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved October 1, 2019.

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.
• De Moya, Robert S.; Savage, Wesley K.; Tenney, Chris; Bao, Xiaoshan; Wahlberg, Niklas; Hill, Ryan I. (2017). "Interrelationships and diversification of Argynnis Fabricius and Speyeria Scudder butterflies". Systematic Entomology. 42 (4): 635–649. Bibcode:2017SysEn..42..635D. doi:10.1111/syen.12236.
• Campbell, Erin O.; Gage, Edward V.; Gage, Randy V.; Sperling, Felix A. H. (2020). "Single nucleotide polymorphism-based species phylogeny of greater fritillary butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Speyeria) demonstrates widespread mitonuclear discordance". Systematic Entomology. 45 (2): 269–280. Bibcode:2020SysEn..45..269C. doi:10.1111/syen.12393.

External links

• Butterflies and Moths of North America
• Butterflies of America