Speyeria

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Kingdom Animalia Subfamily Heliconiinae Scientific name Speyeria Higher classification Heliconiini Order Butterflies and moths		Family Nymphalidae Subgenus SpeyeriaScudder, 1872 Phylum Arthropoda Rank Genus

Lower classifications Speyeria atlantis, Myrtle's silverspot

Speyeria diana

Speyeria, commonly known as greater fritillaries, is a subgenus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae commonly found in North America and Asia. Recently this taxon was made a subgenus of Argynnis.

Speyeria Speyeria zerene hippolyta W H Edwards 1879

Great spangled fritillary speyeria cybele nectaring on butterfly weed asclepias tuberosa

Species

Listed alphabetically:

Speyeria Butterflies of North America Speyeria idalia

Speyeria adiaste (Edwards, 1864) – unsilvered fritillary or Adiaste fritillary

Speyeria alexandra (Ménétriés, 1832)

Speyeria aphrodite (Fabricius, 1787) – Aphrodite fritillary

Speyeria atlantis (Edwards, 1862) – Atlantis fritillary

Speyeria callippe (Boisduval, 1852) – callippe fritillary

Speyeria carolae (dos Passos & Grey, 1942) – Carol's fritillary

Speyeria clara (Blanchard, 1844)

Speyeria coronis (Behr, 1864) – Coronis fritillary

Speyeria cybele (Fabricius, 1775) – great spangled fritillary

Speyeria diana (Cramer, 1777) – Diana fritillary

Speyeria edwardsii (Reakirt, 1866) – Edward's fritillary

Speyeria egleis (Behr, 1863) – Egleis fritillary

Speyeria hesperis (Edwards, 1864) – northwestern fritillary

Speyeria hydaspe (Boisduval, 1869) – Hydaspe fritillary

Speyeria idalia (Drury, 1773) – regal fritillary

Speyeria mormonia (Boisduval, 1869) – Mormon fritillary

Speyeria nokomis (Edwards, 1862) – Nokomis fritillary

Speyeria zerene (Boisduval, 1852) – zerene fritillary

References

Speyeria Wikipedia

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Speyeria diana

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Great spangled fritillary speyeria cybele nectaring on butterfly weed asclepias tuberosa

Species

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