Euphydryas

Euphydryas is a genus of Nymphalidae butterflies.

Euphydryas
Euphydryas phaeton, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Melitaeini
Genus:	Euphydryas Scudder, 1872

Species

Subgenus[1]	Butterfly	Caterpillar	Species	Common Name	Distribution
Euphydryas			Euphydryas phaeton (Drury, 1773)	Baltimore checkerspot	North America
Hypodryas			Euphydryas maturna (Linnaeus, 1758)	scarce fritillary	Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Sweden.
			Euphydryas italica Back, Haussmann, Salk & Weiss, 2015		Italy
			Euphydryas intermedia (Ménétriés, 1859)		Alps, Middle and South Ural, in the taiga zone and the West Siberian Lowland, South Siberia and the Russian Far East, Sakhalin, Mongolia, Northeast China, North Korea
			Euphydryas ichnea (Boisduval, 1833)		Urals to Sakhalin; the Alps, Mongolia, NE. China, Korea
			Euphydryas cynthia (Schiffermüller, 1775)	Cynthia's fritillary	Bulgaria
			Euphydryas iduna (Dalman, 1816)	Lapland fritillary	Arctic Europe, Arctic Asia, Caucasus Major, Alatau, Russian Far East, Altai, Sayan
			Euphydryas gillettii (Barnes, 1897)	Gillette's checkerspot	British Columbia to Oregon and from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.
Occidryas			Euphydryas anicia (Doubleday, 1847)	Anicia checkerspot	North America
			Euphydryas chalcedona (Doubleday, 1847)	Chalcedon checkerspot or variable checkerspot	Rocky Mountains into Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming.
			Euphydryas editha (Boisduval, 1852)	Edith's checkerspot	southern British Columbia and Alberta south to Baja California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado
Eurodryas			Euphydryas aurinia (Rottemburg, 1775)	marsh fritillary	Ireland in the west to Yakutia in the east, and to north-west China and Mongolia in the south
			Euphydryas beckeri (Lederer, 1853)		France
			Euphydryas discordia Bolshakov & Korb, 2013		Russia, Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia, N. Caucasus
			Euphydryas orientalis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851)		Russian Federation (Urals) Turkey, Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan
			Euphydryas asiatica (Staudinger, 1881)		Kazakhstan, Dzhungarsky Alatau, Tian Shan
			Euphydryas sibirica (Staudinger, 1871)		north-eastern Asia
			Euphydryas laeta (Christoph, 1893)		Kazakhstan
			Euphydryas desfontainii (Godart, 1819)	Spanish fritillary	France, Spain, Morocco