Overview
Argynnini is a of butterflies in the subfamily Heliconiinae, containing some of the fritillaries. This group has also been classified as subtribe Argynnina of the Heliconiini, or even as a distinct subfamily Argynninae in the Nymphalidae. This group has roughly 30 species in North America with other species distributed world-wide.
Genera and Selected Species
While many treatments consider several proposed genera to be junior synonyms of Argynnis – occasionally even the fairly distinct Speyeria –, other authors treat Argynnis in a much more circumscribed manner and split off Argyreus, Damora, Speyeria and others. To a lesser extent, similar uncertainty affects Boloria and Issoria.
- Euptoieta Double day 1848
- Yramea Reuss 1920
- Boloria (including Clossiana)
- Issoria Hübner 1819
- Queen of Spain Fritillary, Issoria lathonia
- Brenthis Hübner 1819
- Argynnis Fabricius 1807
- Cardinal, Argynnis pandora
- Dark Green Fritillary, Argynnis aglaja
- Indian Fritillary, Argynnis hyperbius
- Niobe Fritillary, Argynnis niobe
- Silver-washed Fritillary, Argynnis paphia
- Speyeria Scudder 1872 (sometimes included in Argynnis)
- Aphrodite Fritillary, Speyeria aphrodite (Fabricius, 1787)
- Atlantis Fritillary, Speyeria atlantis (Edwards, 1862)
- Calippe Fritillary, Speyeria calippe
- Calippe Silverspot Butterfly, Speyeria callippe callippe
- Great Spangled Fritillary, Speyeria cybele
- Diana Fritillary, Speyeria diana
- Northwestern Fritillary, Speyeria hesperis
- Hydaspe Fritillary, Speyeria hydaspe
- Zerene Fritillary, Speyeria zerene
- Myrtle's Silverspot Butterfly, Speyeria zerene myrtleae
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Taxonomy
The Subfamily Argynninae is a member of the Family Lycaenidae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Argynninae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Cohort: Myoglossata
- Superorder: Amphiesmenoptera
- Order: Lepidoptera
Linnaeus, 1758 - Butterflies and Moths
- Infraorder: Heteroneura
- a genus of Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)
- Family: Lycaenidae
- Gossamer Winged Butterflies
- Subfamily: Argynninae
- Family: Lycaenidae
- Gossamer Winged Butterflies
- Infraorder: Heteroneura
- a genus of Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)
- Order: Lepidoptera
Linnaeus, 1758 - Butterflies and Moths
- Superorder: Amphiesmenoptera
- Cohort: Myoglossata
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Subfamily Argynninae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Tribe (1): Argynnini
- Genus (6): Argyronome · Brenthis · Fabriciana · Issoria · Mesoacidalia · Pandoriana
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 21 species and subspecies in the Subfamily Argynninae.
Genera
Argyronome
Brenthis
Fabriciana
Issoria
Mesoacidalia
Pandoriana
More info about the Genus Pandoriana may be found here.
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