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Speyeria aphrodite

Aphrodite fritillary
Birds Illustrated Butterflies Arginnis Alcestis.jpg
S. a. alcestis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Speyeria
Species: S. aphrodite
Binomial name
Speyeria aphrodite
(Fabricius, 1787)

The Aphrodite fritillary (Speyeria aphrodite) is a fritillary butterfly, from North America.

This orange coloured fritillary has rows of dark dots or chevrons at the wing edges and black or brown lines more proximally. The ventral sides of the wings are also orange with several rows of white dots. Its wingspan is between 51 and 73 mm.

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