Male. Specimen photographed in Blasiwald (Baden-Württemberg) on August 4, 2014.
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Synonyms
Argynnis adippe (Denis et Schiffermüller, 1775)
Fabriciana adippe (Denis et Schiffermüller, 1775)
Additional German name: Märzveilchenfalter, Feuriger Perlmuttfalter.
De Moya et al. (2017) have performed a detailed phylogeny analysis of the genus Argynnis in a wider sense and have restricted the genus Argynnis to a small number of species closely related to Argynnis paphia. The authors discuss the arguments for and against this restrictive use of Argynnis and conclude that the restriction is better supported than lumping all species into an expanded Argynnis in the wider sense. Therefore, these authors recognize three genera: Argynnis (in a restricted sense), Fabriciana and Speyeria. The thorough analysis by De Moya et al. (2017) provides very convincing arguments for this concept of three genera instead of a single huge Argynnis and therefore I adopt this concept here. The present species is a member of the genus Fabriciana, and its closest relatives are the two Asian species Fabriciana vorax and Fabriciana nerippe. If the concept of Fabriciana as proposed by De Moya et al. (2017) is used to define monophyletic sub-groups, and if these monophyletic groups are named according to the type species they contain of previously published genus-group names, then the subgeneric system as shown in Fig. 1 can be derived.
Fabriciana adippe (Denis et Schiffermüller, 1775)
Additional German name: Märzveilchenfalter, Feuriger Perlmuttfalter.
Fig. 1: Fig. 1: A possible subgeneric system
for Fabriciana as derived from the analysis by De Moya et al. (2017).
Only those species included in the analysis by De Moya et al. (2017) are
listed. Monophyletic groups were taken directly from the
phylogram (Fig. 2 in De Moya et al. (2017)) and were then ranked and
named as subgenera according to the type species (in boldface)
they contain. Please note that this system does not agree with the
traditional concepts of these subgenera, but is instead consistent
with the phylogeny in De Moya et al. (2017).
Note: Profabriciana cannot be used for the least inclusive monophyletic
group that contains its type species jainadeva, because this would
render the remaining clade paraphyletic. The green dots denote the
species of the German fauna.
De Moya et al. (2017) have performed a detailed phylogeny analysis of the genus Argynnis in a wider sense and have restricted the genus Argynnis to a small number of species closely related to Argynnis paphia. The authors discuss the arguments for and against this restrictive use of Argynnis and conclude that the restriction is better supported than lumping all species into an expanded Argynnis in the wider sense. Therefore, these authors recognize three genera: Argynnis (in a restricted sense), Fabriciana and Speyeria. The thorough analysis by De Moya et al. (2017) provides very convincing arguments for this concept of three genera instead of a single huge Argynnis and therefore I adopt this concept here. The present species is a member of the genus Fabriciana, and its closest relatives are the two Asian species Fabriciana vorax and Fabriciana nerippe. If the concept of Fabriciana as proposed by De Moya et al. (2017) is used to define monophyletic sub-groups, and if these monophyletic groups are named according to the type species they contain of previously published genus-group names, then the subgeneric system as shown in Fig. 1 can be derived.
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