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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Brush-footed Butterflies (Nymphalidae) » Heliconians and Fritillaries (Heliconiinae) » Fritillaries (Argynnini) » Greater Fritillaries (Speyeria) » Great Spangled Fritillary - Hodges#4450 (Speyeria cybele) » Speyeria cybele leto
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Speyeria cybele - female
Copyright © 2007 plantguy

Speyeria cybele - Female
Merritt, British Columbia, Canada
July 26, 2003
Riparian area around a large lake
Browsed this and other sites for 2 days and can't find anything close.
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Contributed by plantguy on 11 August, 2007 - 5:03pm
Last updated 24 August, 2009 - 6:19pm

yes, to subspecies leto
Since that subspecies has a page, moved from Great Spangled Fritillary.
… David J. Ferguson, 24 August, 2009 - 6:19pm login or register to post comments

No subspecies
I own the same book and it's probably the best field gude I've ever used. No listing of western subspecies, however. It's just a color difference within the same species.
… Michael Marting, 13 August, 2007 - 12:18am login or register to post comments

Great Spangled Fritillary
Thank you. It seems obvious now. Do you think it belongs to the subspecies leto?
… plantguy, 11 August, 2007 - 10:38pm login or register to post comments

Great Spangled Fritillary
Speyeria cybele, dark female. Kaufman's Field Guide to North America, p. 158, mentions that "many western individuals, especially females, hardly resemble their eastern counterparts."

Babs & Loren Padelford
Bellevue, NE
… Loren & Babs Padelford, 11 August, 2007 - 6:41pm login or register to post comments

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