Male. Specimen photographed in Blasiwald (Baden-Württemberg) on August 4, 2013.
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Fig. 1: A possible subgeneric system
for Argynnis 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 entirely agree with the
traditional concepts of these subgenera, but is instead consistent
with the phylogeny in De Moya et al. (2017).
Note: The genus-group names Dryas and Argyreus are older than the
genus-group name Argynnis and normally would have precedence. However,
Dryas has been published in Hübner's "Tentamen" (Hübner 1806) (a work
that has been obliterated in Opinion 97 (International
Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1926)), and is therefore
unavailable. Argyreus has been ruled in Opinion 161 (International
Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1945) to be treated as an invalid name if its type species is considered
congeneric with the type species of Argynnis. In the present concept
both type species are placed in the same genus, and therefore Argyreus
has to be regarded as invalid and thus cannot be used as the name
for either the genus as a whole, or the subgenus that includes its type species. The green dots denote
the
species recorded in Germany.
Dryas paphia
Dryas paphia paphia
Dryas paphia perfectabrunneomaculata
Dryas paphia luteoalba
Dryas paphia virideoiridescenssuffusa
Dryas paphia valesina huhsti Reuss, 1923 (p. 26) (infrasubspecific)
Dryas paphia huhsti (Reuss, 1923)
Type locality: Mark Brandenburg.
Dryas paphia valesina brunea Reuss, 1923 (p. 26) (infrasubspecific)Type locality: Mark Brandenburg.
Type locality: Mark Brandenburg.
Dryas paphia valesina nigra Reuss, 1923 (p. 26) (infrasubspecific)
Type locality: Mark Brandenburg.
Dryas paphia valesina subtuscoerulea Reuss, 1923 (p. 26) (infrasubspecific)
Dryas paphia subtuscoerulea (Reuss, 1923)
Type locality: Mark Brandenburg.
Dryas paphia valesina subtusaurea Reuss, 1923 (p. 26) (infrasubspecific)Type locality: Mark Brandenburg.
Dryas paphia subtusaurea (Reuss, 1923)
Type locality: Mark Brandenburg.
Dryas paphia valesina harmsi Reuss, 1923 (p. 26) (infrasubspecific)Type locality: Mark Brandenburg.
Type locality: Königsberg (Kaliningrad).
Dryas paphia viridescens Reuss, 1923 (p. 26) (infrasubspecific)
Type locality: Mark Brandenburg.
Dryas paphia rutila Reuss, 1923 (p. 26) (infrasubspecific)
Type locality: Mark Brandenburg.
Additional German name: Silberstrich.
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 the present species and a small number of closely related species. 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 subgenus Argynnis, and its closest relative is the Asian species Argynnis sagana, that is placed in the subgenus Damora. If the concept of Speyeria 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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