Euphydryas is a genus of Nymphalidae butterflies.
Species
SubgenusEuphydryas at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms Butterfly Caterpillar Species Common name Distribution Host EuphydryasEuphydryas phaeton (Drury, 1773)Baltimore checkerspot North AmericaChelone glabra, Plantago lanceolata HypodryasEuphydryas 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 ItalyEuphydryas 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 KoreaVeronica, Lonicera, ThalictrumEuphydryas ichnea (Boisduval, 1833) Urals to Sakhalin; the Alps, Mongolia, NE. China, KoreaEuphydryas cynthia (Schiffermüller, 1775)Cynthia's fritillary BulgariaPlantago alpina, and AlchemillaEuphydryas iduna (Dalman, 1816) Lapland fritillary Arctic Europe, Arctic Asia, Caucasus Major, Alatau, Russian Far East, Altai, SayanPlantago, 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 OccidryasEuphydryas anicia (Doubleday, 1847) Anicia checkerspot North America Plantago erectaEuphydryas chalcedona (Doubleday, 1847) Chalcedon checkerspot or variable checkerspot Rocky Mountains into Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming. Symphoricarpos, Castilleja, Buddleja, Diplacus aurantiacus and Scrophularia californicaEuphydryas editha (Boisduval, 1852) Edith's checkerspotsouthern British Columbia and Alberta south to Baja California, Nevada, Utah, and ColoradoCastilleja, Penstemon, Pedicularis, Orthocarpus,Collinsia EurodryasEuphydryas aurinia (Rottemburg, 1775) marsh fritillary Ireland in the west to Yakutia in the east, and to north-west China and Mongolia in the southSuccisa pratensisEuphydryas beckeri (Lederer, 1853) FranceLoniceraEuphydryas discordia Bolshakov & Korb, 2013 Russia, Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia, N. CaucasusEuphydryas orientalis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851) Russian Federation (Urals) Turkey, Transcaucasia, KazakhstanScabiosa isetensisEuphydryas asiatica (Staudinger, 1881) Kazakhstan, Dzhungarsky Alatau, Tian Shan Euphydryas sibirica (Staudinger, 1871) north-eastern AsiaScabiosa lachnophylla Euphydryas laeta (Christoph, 1893) KazakhstanSuccisa pratensis Euphydryas desfontainii (Godart, 1819) Spanish fritillary France, Spain, Morocco Dipsacus, Scabiosa, Cephalaria, Knautia
References
Further reading Glassberg, Jeffrey Butterflies through Binoculars: The West (2001) Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. Butterflies of British Columbia (2001) James, David G. and Nunnallee, David Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies (2011) Pelham, Jonathan Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (2008) Pyle, Robert Michael The Butterflies of Cascadia (2002)
External links
Butterflies and Moths of North America Butterflies of America