| Taxonomic Hierarchy 
        
          |  |  |  |  |  |  | Kingdom | Animalia 
 – Animal, animaux, animals |  |  |  | Subkingdom | Bilateria 
 – triploblasts |  |  |  | Infrakingdom | Protostomia |  |  |  | Superphylum | Ecdysozoa |  |  |  | Phylum | Arthropoda 
 – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods |  |  |  | Subphylum | Hexapoda 
 – hexapods |  |  |  | Class | Insecta 
 – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes |  |  |  | Subclass | Pterygota 
 – insects ailés, winged insects |  |  |  | Infraclass | Neoptera 
 – modern, wing-folding insects |  |  |  | Superorder | Holometabola |  |  |  | Order | Lepidoptera 
 – butterflies, moths, papillons, papillons de nuit, Borboleta, Mariposa |  |  |  | Superfamily | Papilionoidea Latreille, 1802
 – butterflies, papillons |  |  |  | Family | Nymphalidae Rafinesque, 1815
 – admirals, anglewings, brush-footed butterflies, checker-spots, crescent-spots, fritillaries, mourningclocks, purples, brushfoot butterflies, Brushfooted Butterflies |  |  |  | Subfamily | Heliconiinae Swainson, 1822
 – Fritillaries, Heliconians |  |  |  | Tribe | Argynnini Swainson, 1833 |  |  |  | Subtribe | Argynnina Swainson, 1833 |  |  |  | Genus | Speyeria Scudder, 1872 |  |  |  | Species | Speyeria cybele (Fabricius, 1775)
 – Great Spangled Fritillary |  |  |  | Subspecies | Speyeria cybele eileenae J. Emmel, T. Emmel and Mattoon in T. Emmel, 1998 |  |  
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