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Speyeria mormonia (Mormon Fritillary)

Synonyms: Argynnis mormonia

Wikipedia Abstract

Speyeria mormonia, the Mormon fritillary, is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family of North America. It is common from northern California to British Columbia and west Saskatchewan, Colorado, and western South Dakota. This butterfly is dark orange coloured with distinct black bars and dots in a zig-zag pattern on the topside. The wing margins are dark with lighter circles then dark crescents. Silvery spots predominate on the yellowish underside. Wingspan ranges from 38–61 mm (1.5–2.4 in). Larva feed on Viola sp.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.772 inches (.045 m)

Prey / Diet

Viola adunca (blue violet)[2]
Viola melissifolia[3]
Viola nuttallii (Nuttall's violet)[2]
Viola palustris (marsh violet)[2]
Viola sororia (common blue violet)[2]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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