Euphydryas

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

Euphydryas is a genus of Nymphalidae butterflies.

Species[1]

Euphydryas species group:

  • Euphydryas phaeton (Drury, 1773) – Baltimore checkerspot

Hypodryas species group [subgenus]:

  • Euphydryas maturna (Linnaeus, 1758) – scarce fritillary
  • Euphydryas italica Back, Haussmann, Salk & Weiss, 2015
  • Euphydryas intermedia (Ménétriés, 1859)
  • Euphydryas ichnea (Boisduval, 1833)
  • Euphydryas cynthia (Schiffermüller, 1775) – Cynthia's fritillary
  • Euphydryas iduna (Dalman, 1816) – Lapland fritillary
  • Euphydryas gillettii (Barnes, 1897) – Gillette's checkerspot

Occidryas species group [subgenus]:

  • Euphydryas anicia (Doubleday, 1847) – Anicia checkerspot
  • Euphydryas chalcedona (Doubleday, 1847) – Chalcedon checkerspot or variable checkerspot
  • Euphydryas editha (Boisduval, 1852) – Edith's checkerspot
    • Euphydryas editha bayensis – Bay checkerspot
    • Euphydryas editha quino – Quino checkerspot

Eurodryas species group [subgenus]:

  • Euphydryas aurinia (Rottemburg, 1775) – marsh fritillary
  • Euphydryas beckeri (Lederer, 1853)
  • Euphydryas discordia Bolshakov & Korb, 2013
  • Euphydryas orientalis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851)
  • Euphydryas asiatica (Staudinger, 1881)
  • Euphydryas sibirica (Staudinger, 1871)
  • Euphydryas laeta (Cristoph, 1893)
  • Euphydryas desfontainii (Godart, 1819) – Spanish fritillary
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References

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. Retrieved 2008-06-22.

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

Further reading
  • 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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