The Aphrodite fritillary (''Speyeria aphrodite'') is a
fritillary
Fritillary may refer to:
* Fritillary (plant), a genus of flowering plants in the family Liliaceae
* Fritillary (butterfly)
This is a list of species of butterfly with the common name fritillary. The term ''wikt:fritillary, fritillary'' refers ...
butterfly
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...
, from North America.
This orange coloured fritillary has rows of dark dots or chevrons at the wing edges and black or brown lines more proximally. The
ventral
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sides of the wings are also orange with several rows of white dots. Its wingspan is between 51 and 73 mm.
Aphrodite fritillaries are sensitive to temperature with population trajectories showing declines in response to climate warming trends.
Subspecies
Listed alphabetically:"''Speyeria'' Scudder, 1872" at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
*''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
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Atlantis fritillary
''Speyeria atlantis'', the Atlantis fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae of North America. It is from the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador to northern British Columbia, across the northern United States south as far a ...
(''Speyeria atlantis'')
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Great spangled fritillary
The great spangled fritillary (''Speyeria cybele'') is a North American butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
Description
Its wingspan ranges from . It is characterized by its orange colour above with five black dashes near forewing base and sev ...