Speyeria carolae

Speyeria carolae, or Carole's fritillary, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterflies).[1][2][3] It was described by Cyril Franklin dos Passos and Lionel Paul Grey in 1942 and is found in North America,[2] where it has only been recorded from the Charleston Mountains of Clark County, Nevada. The habitat consists of mountain slopes, foothills and forest openings.

Speyeria carolae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Speyeria
Species:
S. carolae
Binomial name
Speyeria carolae
(dos Passos & Grey, 1942)
Synonyms
  • Argynnis coronis carolae dos Passos & Grey, 1942

The wingspan is 69–86 mm. The upperside of the wings is bright orange with black markings. The underside of the hindwings features inwardly triangular silver spots in a marginal row, as well as a red-brown to buffy brown basal disk. Adults are on wing from mid-June to September in one generation per year.

The larvae feed on the leaves of Viola charlestonensis.[4]

The MONA or Hodges number for Speyeria carolae is 4456.1.[5][6]

References
  1. "Speyeria carolae Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
  2. "Speyeria carolae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved 2018-01-21.
  3. "Speyeria carolae Species Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
  4. Butterflies and Moths of North America
  5. Pohl, G.R.; Patterson, B.; & Pelham, J.P. (2016). Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
  6. Pelham, Jonathan P. (July 1, 2017). "A Catalog of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada". Butterflies of America. Retrieved 2018-01-21.

Further reading
  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
  • Pelham, Jonathan P. (2008). "A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada with a complete bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature". Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, vol. 40, xiv + 658.


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