Boloria angarensis

Boloria angarensis is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic that belongs to the browns family.

Boloria angarensis
Boloria angarensis in Seitz 67h
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Boloria
Species:
B. angarensis
Binomial name
Boloria angarensis
(Erschoff, 1870) [1]

Subspecies
  • Boloria angarensis angarensis Transbaikalia, South Siberia
  • Boloria angarensis herzi (Wnukowsky, 1927) North Transbaikalia, Far East Yakutia
  • Boloria angarensis sedychi (Weiss, 1964) Polar Urals, Yamal Peninsula
  • Boloria angarensis alticola (Sushkin & Tschetverikov, 1907) Sayan, Tuva (mountains)
  • Boloria angarensis hakutozana (Matsumura, 1927) Amur, Ussuri, N.Korea, NE.China
  • Boloria angarensis miakei (Matsumura, 1919) Sakhalin

Description from Seitz
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A. angarensis Ersch. (67h). About the same size as the previous [A. iphigenia Graes] ; the forewing less elongate. The underside of the hindwing bears a very close resemblance to that of A. selenis sibirica , but the costal spot of the median band is essentially different in shape, as shown in the figure. Moreover, angarensis has a row of silvery marginal spots, which are absent in sibirica or only indicated. The female larger and paler. — In Amurland, in June, locally very common.[2]

Biology

The larva feeds on Vaccinium.

Etymology

Toponymic Angara

References
  1. Erschoff, 1870 Description d'un Argynnisnouveau de la Sibérie orientale Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou 43 (1) : 112-114
  2. Adalbert Seitz in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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