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Speyeria aphrodite (Anemone fritillary)

Synonyms: Argynnis aphrodite; Argynnis bakeri; Argynnis bartschi (heterotypic); Speyeris aphrodite

Wikipedia Abstract

The Aphrodite fritillary (Speyeria aphrodite) is a fritillary butterfly, from North America.This orange coloured fritillary has rows of dark dots or chevrons at the wing edges and black or brown lines more proximally. The ventral sides of the wings are also orange with several rows of white dots. Its wingspan is between 51 and 73 mm.
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Infraspecies

Speyeria aphrodite alcestis
Speyeria aphrodite aphrodite
Speyeria aphrodite byblis
Speyeria aphrodite colombia
Speyeria aphrodite columbia
Speyeria aphrodite cullasaja
Speyeria aphrodite ethne
Speyeria aphrodite mayae
Speyeria aphrodite whitehousei
Speyeria aphrodite winni

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  2.441 inches (.062 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve 90 Michigan, United States

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Speyeria cybele (Great spangled fritillary)1
Speyeria idalia (Regal fritillary)2

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0