''Speyeria carolae'', or Carole's fritillary, is a

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 ...

in the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species ha ...

(brush-footed butterflies). It was described by Cyril Franklin dos Passos and Lionel Paul Grey in 1942 and is found in North America, where it has only been recorded from the Charleston Mountains of Clark County,

Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, th ...

. The habitat consists of mountain slopes, foothills and forest openings. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...

is 69–86 mm. Adults are on wing from mid-June to September in one generation per year. The larvae feed on the leaves of '' Viola charlestonensis''.Butterflies and Moths of North America
/ref> The MONA or Hodges number for ''Speyeria carolae'' is 4456.1.Pohl, G.R.; Patterson, B.; & Pelham, J.P. (2016).
Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
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Butterflies and Moths of North AmericaNCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Speyeria carolae''
Speyeria Butterflies described in 1942 Butterflies of North America Lepidoptera of the United States {{Nymphalidae-stub

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