Euphydryas asiatica

Euphydryas asiatica
Euphydryas asiatica alexandrina in Seitz (65c )
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Euphydryas
Species:	E. asiatica
Binomial name
Euphydryas asiatica (Staudinger, 1881)

Euphydryas asiatica is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic that belongs to the browns family.

Subspecies

• E. a. asiatica Turkestan, Tarbagatai, Saur, Dzhungarsky Alatau
• E. a. alexandrina (Staudinger, 1887) Tian-Shan
• E. a. narina (Oberthür, 1909) Inner Tian-Shan]
• Euphydryas asiatica narina Korb & Bolshakov, 2011

Taxonomy

E. asiatica is in the subgenus Eurodryas The clade members are:

• Euphydryas aurinia (Rottemburg, 1775)
• Euphydryas provincialis (Boisduval, 1828)
• Euphydryas orientalis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851)
• Euphydryas asiatica (Staudinger, 1881)
• Euphydryas sibirica (Staudinger, 1871)
• Euphydryas laeta (Christoph, 1893)
• Euphydryas desfontainii (Godart, 1819)