Speyeria aglaja/Fabriciana adippe

[daveuk]

The Dark Green & High Brown Fritillary. All these specimens reared by myself from larvae
The S aglaja livestock were sourced in the U.K.
The F adippe livestock originated in Lithuania. F addipe is now probably the rarest British butterfly & our native sub species is fully protected.
The bottom two specimens in the F adippe photo lack the silver spots to the underside( form cleodoxa) This form is excessively rare in the British subspecies.

[livingplanet3]

The butterfly in my local area that probably most resembles these species is Euptoieta claudia -





The verso however, is less similar -

[daveuk]

I saw this species in New Mexico in 2016