Subspecies
• Raphia frater frater (Prairie Provinces, in the east south of the Great Lakes region into Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana; In the West, it occurs south along mid-elevation mountain ranges of the Pacific Northwest into Washington, and southward along the Rocky Mountains. Specimens from high elevations in Colorado and New Mexico) • Raphia frater abrupta Grote, 1864 (Maryland, Oklahoma and Texas) • Raphia frater cinderella Smith, 1903 (central and southern California west of the Sierra Nevada) • Raphia frater coloradensis Putnam-Cramer, 1886 (from British Columbia, south in the mountains to at least Colorado and Utah and northeast to southern Alberta) • Raphia frater elbea Smith, 1908 (from south-eastern Utah and western New Mexico southward through Arizona into northern Mexico) • Raphia frater piazzi Hill, 1927 (central and southern Texas) ==References==