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Marsh Fritillary

Euphydryas aurinia

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Species ID Suggestions

Marsh Fritillary

Euphydryas aurinia

Silvery checkerspot

Chlosyne nycteis

Comments (2)

Thanks for the ID!
According to your link, Ashish, the Nymphalidae butterfly you suggested only lives in North America. There seems to be a lot of color variation between the checkerspot species, but the markings of Euphydryas aurinia seem to match this spotting, and the distribution fits. Small note - the scientific name on the photo linked in the suggestion is wrong; it fomes from the main page of species photos here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Euphydryas_aurinia Other links for E. aurinia are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphydryas_aurinia http://www.lepidoptera.pl/show.php?ID=64&country=XX http://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Britain%20-%20Euphydryas%20aurinia.htm
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PublishedMay 14, 2011

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