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The Queen of the Falklands Fritillary
Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 12:13 pm
by Mike Robinson
Super-Sorry to bother but I have been checking through a set of Falkland Islands' Stamps which includes The Queen of the Falklands Fritillary (Issoria cytheris). My problem is that there is also a Cytheris Fritillary (Yramea cytheris) and they seem to be interchangeable! I have been going backwards and forwards trying to understand what is going on. I wonder if anyone here can shed any light please? Thanks in advance..
Re: The Queen of the Falklands Fritillary
Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 1:14 pm
by bugboy
According to Wikipedia they're simply synonyms of the same species
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yramea_cytheris
Re: The Queen of the Falklands Fritillary
Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 1:24 pm
by Padfield
The butterfly closely resembles a Queen of Spain fritillary but is correctly in the genus
Yramea according to all my reference books. The relation between
Issoria and
Yramea is given graphically here:
http://tolweb.org/Argynnini/70206
To quote from that page: "The positions of
Yramea and
Boloria have been disputed as well.
Yramea has earlier been considered to belong to the genus
Issoria (Warren 1955), but the studies by Simonsen (2006b) and Simonsen et al. (2006) clearly show that this is not the case. Simonsen (2006b) had
Yramea and
Boloria as sister taxa in one subtribe,
Yrameina. The phylogeny favoured here is from Simonsen et al. (2006) with
Yramea in it’s [sic] own subtribe as the sister groups of
Boloriina ,
Argynnina."
Guy
Re: The Queen of the Falklands Fritillary
Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 1:34 pm
by Mike Robinson
Dear both: thanks very, very much for looking at this. It is much appreciated...