Poladryas
Appearance
Dotted checkerspot | |
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P. m. arachne | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Poladryas Bauer, 1975 |
Species: | P. minuta
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Binomial name | |
Poladryas minuta (W.H. Edwards, 1861)
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Synonyms | |
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Poladryas is a monotypic genus of butterflies from United States and Central America in the family Nymphalidae. The single species it contains is Poladryas minuta, the dotted checkerspot.[1]
Subspecies
[edit]- P. m. arachne (W.H. Edwards, 1869) – Arachne checkerspot (Colorado)
- P. m. gilensis (Holland, 1930) (Arizona)
- P. m. minuta (Texas)
- P. m. monache (Comstock, 1918)
- P. m. nympha (W.H. Edwards, 1884) (Arizona, New Mexico)
References
[edit]- ^ "Poladryas Bauer in Ehrlich & Ehrlich, 1975" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms