Biology:Fabriciana

Short description: Genus of brush-footed butterflies

Fabriciana
Female Fabriciana adippe in Austria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Argynnini
Genus:	Fabriciana Reuss, 1920
Synonyms
Prodryas Reuss, 1926 Profabriciana Reuss, 1926 Proacidalia Reuss, 1926 Protodryas Scudder, 1928

Fabriciana is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, commonly found in Europe and Asia. The genus was erected by T. Reuss (T. Reuß) in 1920.

Taxonomy

This taxon used to be considered a subgenus of Argynnis, but has been reestablished as a separate genus in 2017.

Species

Listed alphabetically:

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Fabriciana adippe (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – high brown fritillary	Europe and throughout Asia and Africa
	Fabriciana argyrospilata (Kotzsch, 1938)	Afghanistan, the western Pamirs, Pakistan, and northwest India
	Fabriciana auresiana (Fruhstorfer, 1908)	Morocco
	Fabriciana elisa (Godart, [1824]) – Corsican fritillary	Corsica and Sardinia
	Fabriciana hallasanensis Okano, 1998	Korea
	Fabriciana jainadeva (Moore, 1864)	India
	Fabriciana kamala (Moore, 1857)	Himalayas, Tibet, Kashmir and Kashmir - northwest India
	Fabriciana nerippe (C. & R. Felder, 1862)	Japan, Korea, China
	Fabriciana niobe (Linnaeus, 1758) – Niobe fritillary	the United Kingdom and Northern Europe, and is also found in Siberia, Russia, Iran, China, and Korea
	Fabriciana vorax (Butler, 1871)	Japan, Korea, Northeast and Central China
	Fabriciana xipe (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891)	China, Mongolia and Korea.

Further reading

• De Moya, Robert S.; Savage, Wesley K.; Tenney, Chris; Bao, Xiaoshan; Wahlberg, Niklas; Hill, Ryan I. (2017). "Interrelationships and diversification of Argynnis Fabricius and Speyeria Scudder butterflies". Systematic Entomology 42 (4): 635–649. doi:10.1111/syen.12236. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3063965 entry