Euptoieta
Encyclopedia
Euptoieta is a genus of butterflies
in the subfamily Heliconiinae
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Butterfly
A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...
in the subfamily Heliconiinae
Heliconiinae
The Heliconiinae, commonly called heliconians or longwings, are a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies . They can be divided into 45-50 genera and were sometimes treated as a separate family Heliconiidae within the Papilionoidea...
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Species
- Euptoieta bogotana (Staudinger, 1885)
- Euptoieta claudiaEuptoieta claudiaThe Variegated Fritillary is a North and South American butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Even though the Variegated Fritillary has some very different characteristics from the Speyeria Fritillaries, it is still closely related to them. Some of the differences are: Variegated Fritillaries have...
(Cramer, 1775) -- Variegated Fritillary - Euptoieta hegesiaEuptoieta hegesiaThe Mexican Fritillary is a North and South American butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.-Description:The upper side of the wings is bright orange with the basal part of the hind wing unmarked. There is a row of submarginal black spots on both the fore wing and the hind wing. The underside of...
(Cramer, 1779) -- Mexican Fritillary - Euptoieta hortensia (Blanchard, 1852)
- Euptoieta perdistincta (Hall, 1930)
- Euptoieta poasina (Schaus, 1913)
- Euptoieta sunides (Hewitson, 1877)
- Euptoieta thekla (Hall, 1919)