Euphydryas asiatica

Euphydryas asiatica is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic^[1] that belongs to the browns family.

Euphydryas asiatica
Euphydryas asiatica alexandrina in Seitz (65c)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Euphydryas
Species:	E. asiatica
Binomial name
Euphydryas asiatica (Staudinger, 1881)

Subspecies

• Euphydryas asiatica asiatica; Turkestan, Tarbagatai, Saur, Dzhungarsky Alatau
• Euphydryas asiatica alexandrina (Staudinger, 1887); Tian-Shan
• Euphydryas asiatica narina (Oberthür, 1909); Inner Tian-Shan

Taxonomy

Euphydryas asiatica is in the subgenus Eurodryas. The clade members are:

• Euphydryas aurinia (Rottemburg, 1775)
• Euphydryas provincialis (Boisduval, 1828)
• Euphydryas orientalis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851)
• Euphydryas asiatica (Staudinger, 1881)
• Euphydryas sibirica (Staudinger, 1871)
• Euphydryas laeta (Christoph, 1893)
• Euphydryas desfontainii (Godart, 1819)