Fabriciana

Fabriciana
Female Fabriciana adippe in Austria
Scientific classification
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

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

Species

Listed alphabetically:

• Fabriciana adippe (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – high brown fritillary
• Fabriciana argyrospilata (Kotzsch, 1938)
• Fabriciana auresiana (Fruhstorfer, 1908)
• Fabriciana elisa (Godart, [1824]) – Corsican fritillary
• Fabriciana hallasanensis Okano, 1998
• Fabriciana jainadeva (Moore, 1864)
• Fabriciana kamala (Moore, 1857)
• Fabriciana nerippe (C. & R. Felder, 1862)
• Fabriciana niobe (Linnaeus, 1758) – Niobe fritillary
• Fabriciana vorax (Butler, 1871)
• Fabriciana xipe (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891)

Further reading

• De Moya, Robert S.; Savage, Wesley K.; Tenney, Chris; Bao, Xiaoshan; Wahlberg, Niklas; Hill, Ryan I. (2017). "Interrelationships and diversification of Argynnis Fabricius and Speyeria Scudder butterflies". Systematic Entomology. 42 (4): 635–649. doi:10.1111/syen.12236.