Aphrodite_fritillary

Aphrodite fritillary

Aphrodite fritillary

Species of butterfly

The Aphrodite fritillary (Speyeria aphrodite) is a fritillary butterfly, from North America.

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This orange coloured fritillary has rows of dark dots or chevrons at the wing edges and black or brown lines more proximally.[2] The ventral sides of the wings are also orange with several rows of white dots.[3] Its wingspan is between 51 and 73 mm.[4]

Aphrodite fritillaries are sensitive to temperature [5][6] with population trajectories showing declines in response to climate warming trends.[6]

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically:[7]

  • S. a. alcestis (Edwards, 1876)
  • S. a. byblis (Barnes & Benjamin, 1926)
  • S. a. columbia (H. Edwards, 1877)
  • S. a. ethene (Hemming, 1933)
  • S. a. manitoba (F. & R. Chermock, 1940)
  • S. a. whitehousei (Gunder, 1932)
  • S. a. winni (Gunder, 1932)

Similar species

References

  1. [1]
    "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Speyeria aphrodite Aphrodite Fritillary". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  2. [2]
    Aphrodite Fritillary, Wisconsin Butterflies
  3. [3]
    Brock JP and Kaufman K. Kaufman Field Guide to Butterflies of North America, New York:Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003.
  4. [4]
    Aphrodite Fritillary, Butterflies of Canada
  5. [5]
    Geest, Emily A; Baum, Kristen A (2021-06-01). "Environmental Variables Influencing Five Speyeria (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Species' Potential Distributions of Suitable Habitat in the Eastern United States". Environmental Entomology. 50 (3): 633–648. doi:10.1093/ee/nvab001. ISSN 0046-225X. PMID 33561201.
  6. [6]
    Breed, Greg A.; Stichter, Sharon; Crone, Elizabeth E. (2013). "Climate-driven changes in northeastern US butterfly communities". Nature Climate Change. 3 (2): 142–145. Bibcode:2013NatCC...3..142B. doi:10.1038/nclimate1663. ISSN 1758-6798.
  7. [7]
    "Speyeria Scudder, 1872" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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