Species Speyeria hydaspe - Hydaspe Fritillary - Hodges#4460

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Remarks

Yet another pesky western fritillary - Speyeria hydaspe

fritillary ? - Speyeria hydaspe - female

mountain top fritillary - Speyeria hydaspe - male

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Papilionoidea (Butterflies and Skippers)

Family Nymphalidae (Brush-footed Butterflies)

Subfamily Heliconiinae (Heliconians and Fritillaries)

Tribe Argynnini (Fritillaries)

Genus Speyeria (Greater Fritillaries)

Species hydaspe (Hydaspe Fritillary - Hodges#4460)

Hodges Number

4460

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Argynnis hydaspe Boisduval 1869. Type locality: "sud de la Californie" [defined as “Gold Lake, Sierra County, California” in J. Emmel et al 1998, 'Systematics of Western North American Butterflies' (2): 34]

Argynnis Rhodope W. H. Edwards 1874. Type locality: British Columbia [defined as "between 150-Mile House [Bates'] and Beaver Lake, Cariboo District, British Columbia" in Calhoun 2015, News of the Lepidopterist's Society 57(3): 41

Argynnis monticola purpurascens Hy. Edwards 1877. Type locality: Soda Springs, Siskiyou County, California

Argynnis sakuntala Skinner 1911. Type locality: Kaslo, British Columbia

Argynnis skinneri W. Holland 1931 [superfluous junior objective synonym of sakuntula; published as an unnecessary replacement name for sakuntula, erroneously thought to be preoccupied]

Speyeria hydaspe (Boisduval) dos Passos & Grey 1945

Speyeria hydaspe conquista dos Passos & Grey 1945. Type locality: Little Tesuque Canyon, 8000 ft., near Santa Fe, New Mexico

Speyeria hydaspe minor dos Passos & Grey 1947. Type locality: Mt. McLean, 5000 ft., near Lillooet, British Columbia

Speyeria hydaspe tehama J. Emmel, T. Emmel & Mattoon 1998. Type locality: McClellan Mountain, Humboldt County, California

Some of the previous names are treated variously by some authors as geographical subspecies.

Range

A u-shaped distribution through the mountains of California, north to British Columbia; east across Oregon, Washington, southern British Columbia, and Idaho into the Rockies of Alberta and Montana, and back south into Utah, Colorado, and probably into north-central New Mexico.

Remarks

Closely related to the much paler S. adiaste, which displaces it in southern California.

Contributed by tom murray on 8 July, 2006 - 11:55pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, David Ferguson
Last updated 20 September, 2017 - 10:17pm

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