With Comma and Marbled White, P. c-album and M. galathea
Valais,
Switzerland, July 2004
Valais,
Switzerland, July 2004
Valle d'Aosta,
Italy, July 2004
Female
Var, France,
May 2004
Female
Valais,
Switzerland, August 2005
Female
Macedonia,
Greece, July 2004
Macedonia,
Greece, July 2004
Pelopennesos,
Greece, June 2002
Provence,
France, June 2003
Female of ssp.
meridionalis
Provence,
France, August 2001
Macedonia,
Greece, July 2000
A heavily
gravid female judging by the bulging abdomen.
This species flies through southern and central
Europe from north Africa to Poland and Greece. The males are usually of
a very rich red that is easily seen from a distance and differentiated
from the other Fritillaries. From north Spain to Greece the subspecies meridionalis
flies. This has very dusky females. Elsewhere other named forms fly with
differences in size, ground colour and degree of variation in orange/
yellow ground colour.