Euphydryas

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Euphydryas is a genus of Nymphalidae butterflies.

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Euphydryas
Euphydryas phaeton, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Melitaeini
Genus: Euphydryas
Scudder, 1872
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Subgenus[1] Butterfly Caterpillar Species Common name Distribution Host
Euphydryas Euphydryas phaeton (Drury, 1773) Baltimore checkerspot North America Chelone glabra, Plantago lanceolata
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. Fraxinus excelsior, Viburnum opulus
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 Veronica, Lonicera, Thalictrum
Euphydryas ichnea (Boisduval, 1833) Urals to Sakhalin; the Alps, Mongolia, NE. China, Korea
Euphydryas cynthia (Schiffermüller, 1775) Cynthia's fritillary Bulgaria Plantago alpina, and Alchemilla
Euphydryas iduna (Dalman, 1816) Lapland fritillary Arctic Europe, Arctic Asia, Caucasus Major, Alatau, Russian Far East, Altai, Sayan Plantago, Veronica, Vaccinium
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 Euphydryas anicia (Doubleday, 1847) Anicia checkerspot North America Plantago erecta
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
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 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
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
Euphydryas sibirica (Staudinger, 1871) north-eastern Asia Scabiosa lachnophylla
Euphydryas laeta (Christoph, 1893) Kazakhstan Succisa pratensis
Euphydryas desfontainii (Godart, 1819) Spanish fritillary France, Spain, Morocco Dipsacus, Scabiosa, Cephalaria, Knautia
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