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.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Speyeria |
| Species: | S. carolae
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| Binomial name | |
| Speyeria carolae (dos Passos & Grey, 1942)
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The wingspan is 69–86 mm. 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
edit- ^ "Speyeria carolae Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
- ^ a b "Speyeria carolae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved 2018-01-21.
- ^ "Speyeria carolae Species Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
- ^ Butterflies and Moths of North America
- ^ Pohl, G.R.; Patterson, B.; & Pelham, J.P. (2016). Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
- ^ 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
edit- 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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