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Great Spangled Fritillary

Speyeria cybele

Photo by TracyL
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Notes:

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

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Great Spangled Fritillary

Species ID Suggestions

Great Spangled Fritillary

Speyeria cybele

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LauraMaria
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Comments (5)
TracyL
yes thank you for the site its awesome!
Annie T
Thanks for the great site Laura
LauraMaria
If you want to ID the rest of the lovely butterfly pictures you uploaded, I just found this website http://www.pbase.com/lejun/native_american_butterflies Has all the thumbnails visible so should be really easy to use as a guide! :)
Ashish
I thought its Painted lady..but its very different..

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