Fox’s Grape Fritillary

A new fritillary for me, “Fritillary uva-vulpis,” commonly called the Fox’s Grape fritillary.

According to Wikipedia, that name was coined in Kew after their Kurdish name ‘tarsi raiwi,” recorded by Guest. The botanist Guest collected this plant in north-eastern Iraq in 1931 and brought it to Kew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritillaria_uva-vulpis

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