Biology:Euphydryas
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Euphydryas is a genus of Nymphalidae butterflies.
Species
| Subgenus[1] | Butterfly | Caterpillar | Species | Common name | Distribution | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euphydryas | 120px | 120px | Euphydryas phaeton (Drury, 1773) | Baltimore checkerspot | North America | Chelone glabra, Plantago lanceolata |
| Hypodryas | 120px | 120px | 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. | Fraxinus excelsior, Viburnum opulus |
| Euphydryas italica Back, Haussmann, Salk & Weiss, 2015 | Italy | |||||
| 120px | 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 | Veronica, Lonicera, Thalictrum | |||
| Euphydryas ichnea (Boisduval, 1833) | Urals to Sakhalin; the Alps, Mongolia, NE. China, Korea | |||||
| 120px | 120px | Euphydryas cynthia (Schiffermüller, 1775) | Cynthia's fritillary | Bulgaria | Plantago alpina, and Alchemilla | |
| 120px | Euphydryas iduna (Dalman, 1816) | Lapland fritillary | Arctic Europe, Arctic Asia, Caucasus Major, Alatau, Russian Far East, Altai, Sayan | Plantago, Veronica, Vaccinium | ||
| 120px | Euphydryas gillettii (Barnes, 1897) | Gillette's checkerspot | British Columbia to Oregon and from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. | Lonicera involucrata, Pedicularis groenlandica, Valeriana occidentalis, Lonicera caerulea | ||
| Occidryas | 120px | Euphydryas anicia (Doubleday, 1847) | Anicia checkerspot | North America | Plantago erecta | |
| 120px | 120px | Euphydryas chalcedona (Doubleday, 1847) | Chalcedon checkerspot or variable checkerspot | Rocky Mountains into Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming. | Symphoricarpos, Castilleja, Buddleja, Diplacus aurantiacus and Scrophularia californica | |
| 120px | Euphydryas editha (Boisduval, 1852) | Edith's checkerspot | southern British Columbia and Alberta south to Baja California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado | Castilleja, Penstemon, Pedicularis, Orthocarpus,Collinsia | ||
| Eurodryas | 120px | 120px | 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 | Succisa pratensis |
| 120px | Euphydryas beckeri (Lederer, 1853) | France | Lonicera | |||
| Euphydryas discordia Bolshakov & Korb, 2013 | Russia, Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia, N. Caucasus | |||||
| Euphydryas orientalis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851) | Russian Federation (Urals) Turkey, Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan | Scabiosa isetensis | ||||
| Euphydryas asiatica (Staudinger, 1881) | Kazakhstan, Dzhungarsky Alatau, Tian Shan | |||||
| 120px | Euphydryas sibirica (Staudinger, 1871) | north-eastern Asia | Scabiosa lachnophylla | |||
| Euphydryas laeta (Christoph, 1893) | Kazakhstan | Succisa pratensis | ||||
| 120px | 120px | Euphydryas desfontainii (Godart, 1819) | Spanish fritillary | France, Spain, Morocco | Dipsacus, Scabiosa, Cephalaria, Knautia |
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].
- ↑ 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
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Euphydryas. |
Wikidata ☰ Q2707760 entry
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