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Duke of Burgundy Fritillary

Hamearis lucina

Classification

Class
Insecta

Hamearis lucina, the Duke of Burgundy, the only member of the genus Hamearis, is a European butterfly in the family Riodinidae. For many years, it was known as the "Duke of Burgundy fritillary", because the adult's chequered pattern is strongly reminiscent of "true" fritillaries of the family Nymphalidae. Taxonomy and systematics Riodinidae is currently treated as a distinct family within the superfamily Papilionoidea, but in the past they were held to be the subfamily Riodininae of the Lycaenidae.

Distribution

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Switzerland · 1,615Germany · 1,119France · 970United Kingdom · 595Italy · 570Spain · 324Belgium · 15