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Great Spangled Fritillary
Conservation status
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera (unranked): Rhopalocera Superfamily: Papilionoidea Family: Nymphalidae Subfamily: Heliconiinae Tribe: Heliconiini Subtribe: Argynnina Genus: Speyeria Species: S. cybele
Binomial name
Speyeria cybele

The Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is distinguished from the Aphrodite and Atlantis Fritillaries by a wide light submarginal band on the hindwing. It starts flying before dawn and returns to rest in mid-afternoon (Fullard & Napoleone 2001).

References

• Fullard, James H. & Napoleone, Nadia (2001): Diel flight periodicity and the evolution of auditory defences in the Macrolepidoptera. Animal Behaviour 62(2): 349–368. doi:10.1006/anbe.2001.1753 http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/~w3full/reprints/FullNapolDielAB.pdf PDF fulltext

External links

• Great Spangled Fritillary

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