Attributes of Speyeria cybele
Great Spangled Fritillary
Speyeria cybele (Fabricius, 1775)
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Heliconiinae
Identification: Large. Upperside of male tan to orange with black scales on forewing veins; female tawny, darker than male. Underside of hindwing with wide pale submarginal band and large silver spots.
Wing Span: 2 1/2 - 4 inches (6.3 - 10.1 cm).
Life History: Males patrol open areas for females. Eggs are laid in late summer on or near host violets. Newly-hatched caterpillars do not feed, but overwinter until spring, when they eat young violet leaves.
Flight: One brood from mid-June to mid-September.
Caterpillar Hosts: Various violet species (Viola).
Adult Food: Nectar from many species of flowers including milkweeds, thistles, ironweed, dogbane, mountain laurel, verbena, vetch, bergamot, red clover, joe-pye weed, and purple coneflower.
Habitat: Open, moist places including fields, valleys, pastures, right-of-ways, meadows, open woodland, prairies.
Range: Alberta east to Nova Scotia, south to central California, New Mexico, central Arkansas, and northern Georgia. Comments: The most common fritillary throughout most of the eastern United States.
Conservation: Not usually required.
NCGR: G5 - Demonstrably secure globally, though it may be quite rare in parts of its range, especially at the periphery.
Management Needs: None reported.
Taxonomy Notes:
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The map below displays all verified sighting records in the BAMONA database for this species. Each record is indicated with a yellow dot. The orange dots on the map provide access to information about the 400 most recently verified sightings of this species. In some instances, there are several records at the same location. Use the table view to access these records.
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The fifty most recently verified sightings are below. See more recently verified sightings of all species.
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June 20, 2012 | Nymphalis antiopa | Cumberland County, Virginia, United States | April 13, 2013 | Details |
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June 24, 2012 | mebauer | Marion County, Indiana, United States | April 13, 2013 | Details |
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May 13, 2012 | Wildcat Otto | Riley County, Kansas, United States | April 05, 2013 | Details |
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May 26, 2012 | glennkw | Linn County, Kansas, United States | April 05, 2013 | Details |
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June 21, 2012 | hwrdbrdgtt | Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States | April 05, 2013 | Details |
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July 31, 2012 | sara0401 | Coffey County, Kansas, United States | April 05, 2013 | Details |
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May 15, 2007 | matthew300 | Chautauqua County, New York, United States | April 01, 2013 | Details |
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June 19, 2012 | mom2krb | Loudoun County, Virginia, United States | February 03, 2013 | Details |
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July 18, 2008 | cheins | Clearwater County, Minnesota, United States | January 26, 2013 | Details |
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August 18, 2011 | Rick Henle | Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States | January 12, 2013 | Details |
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June 22, 2009 | dpgbfly1 | Sherburne County, Minnesota, United States | January 08, 2013 | Details |
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June 24, 2012 | dpgbfly1 | Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States | January 08, 2013 | Details |
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July 20, 2010 | dpgbfly1 | Sherburne County, Minnesota, United States | January 06, 2013 | Details |
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June 09, 2012 | LinRandolph | Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States | January 04, 2013 | Details |
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October 03, 2010 | Debbie Taylor | Polk County, Arkansas, United States | January 02, 2013 | Details |
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August 12, 2012 | dpgbfly1 | Isanti County, Minnesota, United States | January 01, 2013 | Details |
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July 20, 2012 | rjboehnke | Salt Lake County, Utah, United States | December 20, 2012 | Details |
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July 20, 2012 | rjboehnke | Salt Lake County, Utah, United States | December 19, 2012 | Details |
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June 20, 2012 | mom2krb | Loudoun County, Virginia, United States | December 17, 2012 | Details |
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August 19, 2012 | saapple | Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States | December 05, 2012 | Details |
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July 05, 2012 | dendroica5 | Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States | December 04, 2012 | Details |
| July 18, 1983 | legacy.reporter (George T. Austin) | Washoe County, Nevada, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| August 26, 1983 | legacy.reporter (George T. Austin) | Washoe County, Nevada, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| July 27, 1987 | legacy.reporter (George T. Austin) | Washoe County, Nevada, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| April 28, 2012 | vitaly charny (Vitaly Charny) | Cleburne County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| May 06, 2012 | vitaly charny (Vitaly Charny) | Colbert County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| May 10, 2012 | vitaly charny (Vitaly Charny) | DeKalb County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| May 11, 2012 | vitaly charny (Vitaly Charny) | DeKalb County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| May 12, 2012 | vitaly charny (Vitaly Charny) | DeKalb County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| May 19, 2012 | legacy.reporter (Kazuo Inagaki) | Cleburne County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| May 05, 2012 | legacy.reporter (Kazuo Inagaki) | Cleburne County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| May 28, 2012 | vitaly charny (Vitaly Charny) | Colbert County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| May 26, 2012 | vitaly charny (Vitaly Charny) | Colbert County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| May 27, 2012 | vitaly charny (Vitaly Charny) | Colbert County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| May 28, 2012 | legacy.reporter (Kazuo Inagaki) | Cleburne County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| June 03, 2012 | vitaly charny (Vitaly Charny) | Cleburne County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| June 03, 2012 | vitaly charny (Vitaly Charny) | Cleburne County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| June 15, 2012 | vitaly charny (Vitaly Charny) | Colbert County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| July 04, 2012 | vitaly charny (Vitaly Charny) | Cleburne County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| August 05, 2012 | vitaly charny (Vitaly Charny) | Colbert County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
| September 07, 2012 | vitaly charny (Vitaly Charny) | Colbert County, Alabama, United States | December 01, 2012 | Details | |
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August 24, 2012 | cyric | New London County, Connecticut, United States | November 21, 2012 | Details |
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June 28, 2012 | ellenjones6 | Franklin County, New York, United States | November 20, 2012 | Details |
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July 09, 2012 | jfkoza | Essex County, Massachusetts, United States | November 17, 2012 | Details |
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July 18, 2012 | ellenjones6 | Franklin County, New York, United States | November 11, 2012 | Details |
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July 25, 2012 | ellenjones6 | Franklin County, New York, United States | November 11, 2012 | Details |
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July 05, 2012 | mom4shiloh | Culpeper County, Virginia, United States | November 04, 2012 | Details |
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September 06, 2010 | fishwings | Person County, North Carolina, United States | October 31, 2012 | Details |
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May 29, 2012 | fishwings | Person County, North Carolina, United States | October 31, 2012 | Details |
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August 26, 2012 | romansperson | Orange County, North Carolina, United States | October 31, 2012 | Details |
