Euphydryas

Short description: Genus of butterflies

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.

## Contents

* 1 Species
* 2 References
* 3 Further reading
* 4 External links

## Species

Subgenus[1] | Butterfly  | Caterpillar  | Species  | Common Name  | Distribution

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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

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:POECBL2.0.CO;2]. http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&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)

## External links

| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Euphydryas.

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* Butterflies and Moths of North America
* Butterflies of America

Wikidata ☰ Q2707760 entry

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