Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea
Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Nymphalinae
Tribus: Melitaeini
Subtribus: Euphydryina
Genus: Euphydryas
Species: E. anicia – E. asiatica – E. aurinia – E. bernadetta – E. chalcedona – E. colon – E. cynthia – E. desfontainii – E. discordia – E. editha – E. gillettii – E. ichnea – E. iduna – E. intermedia – E. italica – E. maturna – E. merope – E. orientalis – E. phaeton
Name
Euphydryas Scudder, 1872
Synonyms
Lemonias Hübner, [1806] (synonymized by Lamas, 2004: 252)
Type species: Papilio maturna Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
Occidryas Higgins, 1978 (synonymized by Lamas, 2004: 252)
Type species: Melitaea anicia Doubleday, 1847 by original designation.
Hypodryas Higgins, 1978 (synonymized by Lamas, 2004: 252)
Type species: Papilio maturna Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
Eurodryas Higgins, 1978 (synonymized by Lamas, 2004: 252)
Type species: Papilio aurinia Rottemburg, 1775 by original designation.
Anthodryas Lastukhin, 2008 (synonymized by Korb & Bolshakov, 2010: 30)
Type species: Euphydryas editha Boisduval, 1852
Neodryas Lastukhin, 2008 (synonymized by Korb & Bolshakov, 2010: 30)
Type species: Euphydryas gilletii Barnes, 1921
Cryodryas Lastukhin, 2008 (synonymized by Korb & Bolshakov, 2010: 30)
Type species: H. (H.) iduna (Dalman, 1816)
Oreodryas Lastukhin, 2008 (synonymized by Korb & Bolshakov, 2010: 30)
Type species: Euphydryas aurinia asiatica Staudinger, 1861
Taigadryas Lastukhin, 2008 (synonymized by Korb & Bolshakov, 2010: 30)
Type species: Euphydryas aurinia siberica Staudinger, 1861
Protodryas Lastukhin, 2008 (synonymized by Korb & Bolshakov, 2010: 30)
Type species: Euphydryas aurinia var. sareptensis Staudinger, 1879.
Euphydryas phaeton, Biology Stamps
References
Bolshakov, L.V. & S.K. Korb, 2012: To the systematics and nomenclature of fritillaries of the Euphydryas aurinia (Rottemburg, 1775) - group from Siberia and Central Asia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Eversmannia 31-32: 38–48.
Bolshakov, L.V. & S.K. Korb, 2013: A new species of Euphydryas aurinia (Rottemburg, 1775) - group from Caucasus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Eversmannia, 34: 25–31.
Korb, S.K. & L.V. Bolshakov, 2010: Taxonomical notes to the publication. Lastukhin A.A. 2008. Taxonomic notes of the tribe Euphydryini Higgins, 1978 (Melitaeinae, Nymphalidae, Lepidoptera). Eversmannia 21-22: 30–37. Full article: [1].
Korb, S.K. & L.V. Bolshakov, 2011: Taxonomic notes upon the genus Euphydryas Scudder, 1872 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Eversmannia, 25-26: 25–33.
Korb, S.K. & L.V. Bolshakov, 2013: Is Euphydryas cf. aurinia emba (Fruhstorfer, [1917]) a synonym of Euphydryas aurinia sareptana (Staudinger, 1871)? (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Eversmannia, 36: 6–7.
Lamas, G., 2004: Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea.
Lastukhin, A.A., 2008: Taxonomic notes of the tribe Euphydryini Higgins, 1978 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Melitaeinae). Scientific papers of the State Nature Reserve "Prisursky", 19: 47–66. Full article: [2].
Rákosy, L., Pecsenye, K., Mihali, C., Tóth, A. & Varga, Z., 2012: Taxonomic review of Euphydryas maturna (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) with description of a new subspecies from Dobrogea (Romania) and notes on conservation bio. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 58 (2): 145–161.
Euphydryas is a genus of Nymphalidae butterflies.
Species[1]
| Subgenus | Butterfly | Caterpillar | Species | Common Name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euphydryas |  |
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Euphydryas phaeton (Drury, 1773) | Baltimore checkerspot | North America |
| Hypodryas |  |
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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 | ||||
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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 | ||||
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Euphydryas cynthia (Schiffermüller, 1775) | Cynthia's fritillary | Bulgaria | |
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Euphydryas iduna (Dalman, 1816) | Lapland fritillary | Arctic Europe, Arctic Asia, Caucasus Major, Alatau, Russian Far East, Altai, Sayan | ||
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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 | |
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Euphydryas chalcedona (Doubleday, 1847) | Chalcedon checkerspot or variable checkerspot | Rocky Mountains into Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming. | ||
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Euphydryas editha (Boisduval, 1852) | Edith's checkerspot | southern British Columbia and Alberta south to Baja California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado | ||
| Eurodryas |  |
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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 |
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Euphydryas beckeri (Lederer, 1853) | France | |||
| Euphydryas discordia Bolshakov & Korb, 2013 | Russia, Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia, N. Caucasus | ||||
| Euphydryas orientalis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851) | Russian Federation | ||||
| Euphydryas asiatica (Staudinger, 1881) | Kazakhstan | ||||
| Euphydryas sibirica (Staudinger, 1871) | north-eastern Asia | ||||
| Euphydryas laeta (Cristoph, 1893) | Kazakhstan | ||||
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Euphydryas desfontainii (Godart, 1819) | Spanish fritillary | France, Spain, Morocco |
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.
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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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