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Speyeria

Speyeria, commonly known as greater fritillaries, is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae commonly found in North America, Europe, and Asia. Some authors used to consider this taxon a subgenus of Argynnis, but it has been reestablished as a separate genus in 2017.

Species
The genus has 3 species in Eurasia (these were formerly known as genus Mesoacidalia, now a synonym of Speyeria): • Speyeria aglaja (Linnaeus, 1758) – Dark green fritillary • Speyeria alexandra (Ménétriés, 1832) • Speyeria clara (Blanchard, [1844]) and 16 species in North America: • Speyeria diana (Cramer, [1777]) – Diana fritillary • Speyeria cybele (Fabricius, 1775) – great spangled fritillary • Speyeria aphrodite (Fabricius, 1787) – Aphrodite fritillary • Speyeria idalia (Drury, [1773]) – regal fritillary • Speyeria nokomis (Edwards, 1862) – Nokomis fritillary • Speyeria edwardsii (Reakirt, 1866) – Edward's fritillary • Speyeria coronis (Behr, 1864) – Coronis fritillary • Speyeria zerene (Boisduval, 1852) – zerene fritillary • Speyeria carolae (dos Passos & Grey, 1942) – Carole's fritillary • Speyeria callippe (Boisduval, 1852) – callippe fritillary • Speyeria egleis (Behr, 1863) – Egleis fritillary • Speyeria adiaste (Edwards, 1864) – unsilvered fritillary or Adiaste fritillary • Speyeria atlantis (Edwards, 1862) – Atlantis fritillary • Speyeria hesperis (Edwards, 1864) – northwestern fritillary • Speyeria hydaspe (Boisduval, 1869) – Hydaspe fritillary • Speyeria mormonia (Boisduval, 1869) – Mormon fritillary ==References==
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