BC Conservation Data Centre: Species Summary
Speyeria cybele leto
Great Spangled Fritillary, leto subspecies
| Scientific Name: | Speyeria cybele leto (Behr, 1862) | ||||||||||
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| English Name: | Great Spangled Fritillary, leto subspecies | ||||||||||
| Classification / Taxonomy | |||||||||||
| Scientific Name - Concept Reference: | Layberry, R.A., P.W. Hall, and J.D. LaFontaine. 1998. The Butterflies of Canada. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, Canada. 280 pp. + color plates. | ||||||||||
| Classification Level: | Subspecies | ||||||||||
| Species Group: | Invertebrate Animal | ||||||||||
| Species Code: | LE-SPECYB-LE | ||||||||||
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| Conservation Status / Legal Designation | |||||||||||
| Global Status: | G4G5 (Mar 2024) | ||||||||||
| Provincial Status: | S5 (Feb 2023) | ||||||||||
| BC List: | Yellow | ||||||||||
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| Ecology & Life History | |||||||||||
| General Description: | |||||||||||
| Migration Characteristics: (Global / Provincial) | |||||||||||
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Nonmigrant: Local Migrant: Distant Migrant: Within Borders Migrant: |
N / N / N / na / |
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| Habitats: (Type / Subtype / Dependence) |
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| Global Habitat Comments: | This species is found in moist meadows adjacent to forests (Pyle and LaBar 2018; Pelham 2023). | ||||||||||
| Food Habits: |
Herbivore:Immature
Nectarivore: Adult |
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| Global Food Habits Comments: | Adults of this species consume flower nectar and larval hosts are various violets (Viola spp.) (Lotts and Naberhaus 2017; Pyle and LaBar 2018). | ||||||||||
| Global Phenology: | |||||||||||
| Provincial Phenology: (1st half of month/ 2nd half of month) |
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| Colonial Breeder: | N | ||||||||||
| Length(cm)/width(cm)/Weight(g): | / / | ||||||||||
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| Distribution | |||||||||||
| Endemic: | N | ||||||||||
| Global Range Comment: | This species occurs in southern British Columbia and Alberta, Canada and in the western United States from Washington to western Montana, south to Utah and west to California (Bugguide 2024; GBIF 2024; SCAN 2024; iNaturalist 2024). | ||||||||||
| Authors / Contributors | |||||||||||
| Global Information Author: | Schweitzer, D.F. (2001); rev. T. Cornelisse (2024) | ||||||||||
| Last Updated: | Mar 20, 2024 | ||||||||||
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| References and Related Literature | |||||||||||
BugGuide. 2024. BugGuide.net: identification, images, and information for insects, spiders and their kin for the United States and Canada. Iowa State University Entomology. Online. Available: http://bugguide.net |
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Pyle, R.M. and C.C. LaBar. 2018. Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon. 462 pp. |
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Suggested Citation:
B.C. Conservation Data Centre. 2024. Species Summary: Speyeria cybele leto. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Sep 18, 2024).