Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha)

Uncommon but widespread in the western US and southwestern Canada.
Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha) Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha)
Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha colonia)
Skyline Trail above Paradise, Mt. Rainier
9 Aug 2004
#1537
Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha colonia)
Skyline Trail above Paradise, Mt. Rainier
9 Aug 2004
#1531

Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha) Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha)
Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha)
Round Lake Trail, Plumas Co, CA
15 July 2007
Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha)
Round Lake Trail, Plumas Co, CA
15 July 2007

Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha) Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha)
Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha)
Round Lake Trail, Plumas Co, CA
15 July 2007
Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha)
Round Lake Trail, Plumas Co, CA
15 July 2007

Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha)
Round Lake Trail, Plumas Co, CA
15 July 2007


Below is yet a different subspecies of Edith's Checkerspot from high elevation in the California Sierra Nevada. Thanks to Jim Brock for indicating they might be E. editha, not E. anicia as I originally thought, and to Ken Davenport for identification of this subspecies, E. editha nubigena, the 'Cloud-Born' Checkerspot.
Anicia Checkerspot (Euphydryas anicia) Anicia Checkerspot (Euphydryas anicia)
'Nubigena' Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha nubigena)
Saddlebag Lake, Mono Co., CA
17 July 2007
'Nubigena' Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha nubigena)
Saddlebag Lake, Mono Co., CA
17 July 2007

Anicia Checkerspot (Euphydryas anicia) Anicia Checkerspot (Euphydryas anicia)
'Nubigena' Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha nubigena)
Saddlebag Lake, Mono Co., CA
17 July 2007
'Nubigena' Edith's Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha nubigena)
Saddlebag Lake, Mono Co., CA
17 July 2007

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