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Sadie Williamson was a world authority on the genus Argynnis, its global distribution and habitats.
Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000
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She's a long-wing, but she's not a Heliconian; she's a silver-spot, but she's not an Argynnis.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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The Monarch was the Brown Velvet; the Viceroy was his Cousin; the Argynnis was the Silver Spotted; and the Papilio Ajax was the Ribbon butterfly, in my category.
Moths of the Limberlost Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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Chrysophanus (Fig. 227), Lycæna, Thecla and Argynnis (Fig. 228).
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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"Fritillaries" (_Polyommatus_ and _Argynnis_) amongst butterflies, do exist at this prodigious elevation, they are too few in number to influence the operations of vegetable life. '
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852 Various 1836
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Argynnis adippe) - the species has disappeared from 94\% of its historic range, and now exists in fewer than 50 small colonies
Scientific American 2009
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Argynnis adippe) - the species has disappeared from 94\% of its historic range, and now exists in fewer than 50 small colonies
Scientific American 2009
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