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Fabriciana

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Fabriciana
Female Fabriciana adippe in Austria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Argynnini
Genus: Fabriciana
Reuss, 1920
Synonyms
  • Prodryas Reuss, 1926
  • Profabriciana Reuss, 1926
  • Proacidalia Reuss, 1926
  • Protodryas Scudder, 1928

Fabriciana is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, commonly found in Europe and Asia. The genus was erected by T. Reuss (T. Reuß) in 1920.

Taxonomy

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This taxon used to be considered a subgenus of Argynnis, but has been reestablished as a separate genus in 2017.[1]

Species

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Listed alphabetically:[1]

Image Scientific name Distribution
Fabriciana adippe (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – high brown fritillary Europe and throughout Asia and Africa
Fabriciana argyrospilata (Kotzsch, 1938) Afghanistan, the western Pamirs, Pakistan, and northwest India
Fabriciana auresiana (Fruhstorfer, 1908) Morocco
Fabriciana elisa (Godart, [1824]) – Corsican fritillary Corsica and Sardinia
Fabriciana hallasanensis Okano, 1998 Korea
Fabriciana jainadeva (Moore, 1864) India
Fabriciana kamala (Moore, 1857) Himalayas, Tibet, Kashmir and Kashmir - northwest India
Fabriciana nerippe (C. & R. Felder, 1862) Japan, Korea, China
Fabriciana niobe (Linnaeus, 1758) – Niobe fritillary the United Kingdom and Northern Europe, and is also found in Siberia, Russia, Iran, China, and Korea
Fabriciana vorax (Butler, 1871) Japan, Korea, Northeast and Central China
Fabriciana xipe (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891) China, Mongolia and Korea.

References

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  1. ^ a b Savela, Markku. "Fabriciana Reuss, 1920". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved October 1, 2019.

Further reading

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