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Boloria Moore, [1900]

Boloria Moore, [1900]; Lepidoptera Indica, 4 (48): 243, TS: Papilio pales Denis & Schiffermüller
Boloria [Wahlberg]
Boloria (Argynnini) ; [Wahlberg]

Boloria pales ([Schiffermüller], 1775)

Cantabrian, Pyrenees, Alps, Carpathians, Caucasus, C.Asia, W.China. See [About maps] Shepherd's Fritillary Perlada alpina Dostojka pales
Papilio pales [Schiffermüller], 1775; Ankündung eines systematischen Werkes von den Schmetterlingen der Wienergegend: 177
Boloria pales [SZMN]
Boloria pales [Wahlberg]
Boloria pales [Mario Maier]
Boloria pales [Simon Coombes]
Brenthis pales ; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. natn. Mus., 52: 16
Boloria pales ; [BOW: pl. 1, f. 17, 23]; [EBW]; [MRS, 478]; [Otakar Kudrna]

Larva on Viola, V. calcarata [H&R]

B. p. pales

Austria

B. p. palina (Fruhstorfer, 1903)

W.Sichuan Boloria pales palinoides Reuss, 1925

= ; Huang, 2001

Boloria pales palina ; [MRS, 478]
Boloria pales palilna ; Huang, 2001

B. p. palustris (Fruhstorfer, 1909)

S.France?

B. p. eupales (Fruhstorfer, 1903)

pales eupales (Fruhstorfer, 1903); , TL: Khamba-Jong, nr Yadong of SC.Tibet
Boloria pales eupales ; Huang, 2001

B. p. pyrenesmiscens (Verity, 1932)

Pyrenees?

B. p. rilaensis Varga, 1971

Bulgaria Boloria pales rilaensis [SZMN]

B. p. shambhala Kocman, 1999

Boloria pales shambhala Kocman, 1999; , TL: SE.Qinghai

B. p. nirvana Kocman, 1999

Boloria pales nirvana Kocman, 1999; , TL: Lhasa

B. p. sifanica (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891)

Qinghai, Gansu Boloria pales mingi Kocman, 1995

= ; Huang, 2001

?pales lucida (Bang-Haas, 1927)

= ; Huang, 2001

Boloria sifanica [Wahlberg]
Boloria sifanica ; [EBW, (name only)]
Boloria pales sifanica ; Huang, 2001

Boloria sipora (Moore, [1875])

-. See [About maps] sipora (Moore, [1875]); Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1874 (4): 568, TL: Kashmere, nar Gungabul lake, at foot of Haramook Peak
Boloria sipora ; [BRU2: 53, pl. 35, f. 12-18]

B. s. sipora

E.Pamirs Boloria hunzaica Tytler, 1940
Boloria sipora sipora ; [BRU2, 53]

B. s. generator (Staudinger, 1886)

Pamirs-Alai, Tian-Shan, W.Himalaya Boloria generator [Wahlberg]
Boloria sipora generator ; [BRU2, 53]
Boloria generator ; [Oleg Kosterin]

B. s. korla Reuss, 1926

Fabriciana[?] korla Reuss, 1926; Dt. ent. Z. 1926 (1): 70, TL: Korla
?Boloria generator korla Reuss, 1926

800x600 (~99Kb) underside An ancient moraine at 3400 m above sea level in the Tyshkan River headwaters, 45 km NEN of Zharkent, 20 km NEN of village Sarybel', altitude of 3400 m, mountain massif Tyshkantau, the Southern Dzhungarian Alatau mountain chain (NE part of Tien Shan), Zharkent District, Taldy-Kurgan Province, SE Kazakhstan. 26th of July 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

Boloria napaea (Hoffmannsegg, 1804)

Pyrenees, Alps, Fennoscandia. See [About maps] Tunturihopeatäplä Mountain Fritillary Napaea Fritillary Fjällpärlefjäril
napaea (Hoffmannsegg, 1804); Mag. f. Insektenk. (Illiger) 3: ?
isis (Hübner, 1799-1800); , (preocc. by Drury, 1773)
Boloria napaea [ALBERTA]
Boloria napaea [SZMN]
Boloria napaea [Wahlberg]
Boloria napaea [Kimmo Silvonen]
Boloria napaea [NORLEP]
Boloria napaea [Mario Maier]
Boloria napaea [Simon Coombes]
Boloria napaea ; [MRS, 478]; [Otakar Kudrna]

Misidentified/misapplied:

pales;
Boloria napaea (= Boloria alaskensis); [NACL, #4462]; [BNA: 317, #237, pl. 26]

Larva on Polygonum [SPRK]

Larva on Polygonum viviparum [NAB]

B. n. altaica (Grum-Grshimailo, 1893)

Tarbagatai, Sayan, Altai - S.Transbaikalia, Mongolia altaica (Grum-Grshimailo, 1893); Horae Soc. ent. Ross. 27 (1): 128, TL: [Kara-Kaba Valley, Altai]
Boloria altaica [Wahlberg]
Boloria napaea altaica ; [MRS, 478]; [Oleg Kosterin]
Boloria altaica ; [BRU2: 53, pl. 35, f. 19-24]
Boloria altaica altaica ; [BRU2, 53]

400x533 (~48Kb) underside male An alpine meadow, 2200 m above sea level, on the eastern spurs of the Katunskiy Mt. Range, the valley of the Argem (Direntai) stream, Central Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 17th July, 1988 (on an Aster alpinum L. flower), Photo © Oleg Kosterin

652x500 (~54Kb) upperside male female A damp meadow on the Samakha Rivulet bank in the hollow Step' Samakha, 1600 m above sea level, at the junction of Argut and Koksu Rivers, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, Central Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 9th July, 1988 (on Bistorta bistorta), Photo © Oleg Kosterin

538x464 (~27Kb) upperside underside male female Highland dwarf birch (Betula rotundifolia) tundras on a ledge of the southerm principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulets, 2400 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West SIberia, Russia. 10th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

B. n. pustagi Korshunov & Ivonin, 1995

NE.Altai Boloria altaica pustagi Korshunov & Ivonin, 1995; , TL: Gornaya Shoriya, NE. Altai
Boloria napaea pustagi [SZMN]
Boloria altaica pustagi ; [BRU2, 53]

B. n. vinokurovi Dubatolov, 1992

E.Yakutia Boloria altaica vinokurovi Dubatolov, 1992
Boloria napaea vinokurovi [SZMN]
Boloria altaica vinokurovi ; [BRU2, 53]

B. n. contaminata Gorbunov, 2007

Boloria purpurea Churkin, 1999

Buryatia (Barguzin Mts.). See [About maps] Boloria purpurea Churkin, 1999; Atalanta 29 (1/4): 118, pl. IX, f. 1-3, TL: Buryatia, Barguzin Mts., Nesterikha River, Kedrovoe Lake, 1900-2000m
Boloria purpurea ; [BRU2: 54, pl. 36, f. 10-12]

Boloria alaskensis (Holland, 1900)

Alaska - British Columbia, Arctic America. See [About maps] alaskensis (Holland, 1900); Ent. News 11: 383, TL: mtns betw. Forty-Mile and Mission Creeks [Alaska]
Boloria reiffi Reuss, 1925
?nikolajewski (Heydemann, 1920)

= ?; [BRU2, 54 (?)]

Boloria alaskensis alaskensis [BOA]
Boloria alaskensis [BAMONA]
Brenthis pales alaskensis ; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. natn. Mus., 52: 16
Boloria napaea alaskensis ; [NACL, #4462a]; [BNA, #237]
Boloria alaskensis ; [BRU2: 54, pl. 36, f. 1-9]; [Opler]; [Otakar Kudrna]

Larva on Polygonum, Viola [BRU2, 55], Polygonum viviparum [BNA, 317]

B. a. alaskensis

E.Chukotka, Wrangel I., Alaska - Alberta Boloria alaskensis alaskensis ; [BRU2, 54]

?B. a. nearctica Verity, 1932

Boloria napaea nearctica; [NACL, #4462b]
pales ; Lehman, 1913,

?B. a. halli Klots, 1940

Wyoming alaskensis halli Klots, 1940; Am. Mus. Novit. 1054: 1, TL: Wyoming
Boloria alaskensis halli [BOA]
Boloria napaea halli ; [NACL, #4462c]; [BNA, #237]

Larva on Polygonum bistortoides? [BNA, 317]

B. a. sedykhi Crosson du Cormier, 1977

Polar Urals, Yamal Peninsula

B. a. bato Churkin, 1999

Transbaikalia Boloria alaskensis bato Churkin, 1999; , TL: Kodar Mts., Chita Region
Boloria alaskensis bato ; [BRU2, 54]

Boloria frigidalis Warren, 1944

Altai, Sayan, Tuva (mountains), W.Mongolia. See [About maps] Boloria napaea altaica f. frigidalis Warren, 1944; Trans. R. Ent. Soc. Lond. 94 (1): 48, TL: Tchuja Mts., SE Altai
Boloria frigidalis ; Forster, 1968, Reichenbachia 11 (18): 189-205; Kosterin, 1994, Actias. Russian Journal of Scientific Lepidopterology,1 (1-2): 46-76; [BRU2: 54, pl. 35, f. 25-27]

300x496 (~17Kb) underside female An alpine meadow vegetation at a brook flowing in a moss/sedge tundra in a cirque of the sources of a rivulet descending from the southerm principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulets, 2650 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 16 July 1998 (on Rhodiola algida (Ledeb.) Fisch. & Mey.), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	960x588 (~107Kb) underside female A chionophylic alpine meadow in a cirque of one of the Chikty Rivulet sources, 2700 m above sea level, the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West SIberia, Russia. 13th July 1998 (on Allium schoenoprasum), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	482x654 (~23Kb) underside male A chionophylic alpine meadow in a cirque of one of the Chikty Rivulet sources, 2700 m above sea level, the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West SIberia, Russia. 13th July 1998 (on Allium schoenoprasum), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
864x712 (~99Kb) underside male A chionophylic alpine meadow in a cirque of one of the Chikty Rivulet sources, 2700 m above sea level, the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West SIberia, Russia. 13th July 1998 (on Allium schoenoprasum), Photo © Oleg Kosterin	597x400 (~38Kb) upperside male A chionophylic alpine meadow in a cirque of one of the Chikty Rivulet sources, 2700 m above sea level, the southern principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West SIberia, Russia. 13th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

Boloria caucasica (Lederer, 1852)

Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkey. See [About maps] caucasica (Lederer, 1852); Verh. zool.-bot. Ver. Wien 2: 22, TL: "Achaltsiche und Kazbegi" [Akhaltsike and Kazbegi, Georgia]
Boloria pontica Crosson du Cormier, Guérin & de Lesse, 1957
Boloria caucasica [Wahlberg]
Boloria caucasica ; [BRU2: 52, pl. 35, f. 28-30]

B. c. causasica

B. c. petrovi Churkin, 2002

Boloria aquilonaris (Stichel, 1908)

W.Siberia, C.Siberia. See [About maps] Suohopeatäplä Cranberry Fritillary Allmän gulfläckig pärlemofjäril Tranpärlefjäril Dostojka akwilonaris
aquilonaris (Stichel, 1908); Berl. ent. Z. 53 (1): 81, TL: Gallivar, Sweden
Boloria aquilonaris aquilonaris [SZMN]
Boloria aquilonaris [Wahlberg]
Boloria aquilonaris [Kimmo Silvonen]
Boloria aquilonaris [NORLEP]
Boloria aquilonaris [Mario Maier]
Boloria aquilonaris ; [BRU2: 52, pl. 36, f. 13-18]; [Otakar Kudrna]

Larva on Vaccinium, Oxycoccus palustris, (Europe) Oxycoccus microcarpus [BRU2, 52]

B. a. aquilonaris

Fennoscandia, N.European Russia arsilache (Knoch, 1781); (preocc.)
lapponica (Staudinger, 1871); (preocc.)
alethea (Hemming, 1934)
Boloria aquilonaris aquilonaris ; [BRU2, 52]

B. a. sima Churkin, 2000

Kazakhstan Boloria aquilonaris sima ; [BRU2, 52]

B. a. banghaasi Seitz, [1909]

Amur, E.Yakutia?, Kamchatka, Sakhalin? Boloria banghaasi Seitz, [1909]; Gross-Schmett. Erde 1 : 230, TL: "Kentei" [Kentei Mts., ?Mongolia]
Boloria banghaasi ; [BRU2: 52, pl. 35, f. 31-36]
Boloria banghaasi banghaasi ; [BRU2, 53]
Boloria aquilonaris banghaasi ; [Oleg Kosterin]

533x400 (~50Kb) underside On the local dwarf birch Betula divaricata Ledeb. An Empetrum/lichen tundra alternating with dwarf pine Pinus pumila (Pall.) Regel elfin wood in the delta of the Burgauli River, the southern coast of the Koni Peninsula, Ola District, Magadan Province, Russia. 18th July, 1989, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

B. a. infans Churkin, 2000

Magadan, Chukotka Boloria banghaasi infans Churkin, 2000
Boloria banghaasi infans ; [BRU2, 53]

B. a. roddi Kosterin, 2000

Altai Boloria banghaasi roddi Kosterin, 2000
Boloria aquilonaris roddi [SZMN]
Boloria banghaasi roddi ; [BRU2, 53]

B. a. jakubovi Gorbunov, 2007

Boloria graeca (Staudinger, 1870)

Balkans, Alps. See [About maps] Balkan Fritillary
graeca (Staudinger, 1870); Horae Soc. ent. ross. 7 (1870): 62
Boloria graeca [Simon Coombes]
Boloria graeca ; [Otakar Kudrna]

B. g. balcanica Reble, 1903

Bulgaria

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References:

[ALBERTA]

University of Alberta, E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum; Browse Entomology Collection

[About maps]

Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

[BAMONA]

Paul Opler, Harry Pavulaan, Ray Stanford, Michael Pogue; Butterflies and Moths of North America; Mountain Prairie Information Node

[BNA]

Scott, James A., 1986; The Butterflies of North America

[BOA]

Interactive Listing of American Butterflies; Listado Interactivo de la Mariposas Americanas; Butterflies of America

[BOW]

Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X

[BRU2]

Tuzov (ed.), Bogdanov, Churkin, Devyatkin, Dantchenko, Murzin, Samodurov, Zhdanko, 2000; Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories; Libytheidae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae; Volume 2

[EBW]

Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6

[H&R]

Higgins, L.G, Riley, N.D, 1970; A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe

[Kimmo Silvonen]

Espoo, Finland; Kimmo's Lep Site

[LAMAS-NEO]

Gerardo Lamas; Bibliography of butterflies; An Annocated Bibliography of the Neotropical Butterflies and Skipper (Lepididoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea); Revised Electronic Edition (2007)

[MRS]

Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2

[Mario Maier]

Europäische Schmetterlinge; e-mail: Mario Maier

[NAB]

Pyle, R. M.; National Audubon Society: Field Guide to North American Butterflies; 1981; ISBN 0-394-51914-0

[NACL]

Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.), 1983; Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico

[NORLEP]

Norges Sommerfugler

[Oleg Kosterin]

Institue of Cytology & Genetics; Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/

[Opler]

Opler & Warren, 2003 (April); Butterflies of North America. 2. Scientific Names List for Butterfly Species of North America, north of Mexico.

[SPRK]

Seppänen, E. J, 1970; Suomen suurperhostoukkien ravintokasvit, Animalia Fennica 14

[SZMN]

Lepidoptera; Siberian Zoological Museum

[Simon Coombes]

1 Park Street, Plymouth, PL3 4BL, UK; 01752 607854; e-mail: Simon Coombes; http://www.butterfly-guide.co.uk

[Wahlberg]

Niklas Wahlberg; The NSG's voucher specimen database; Nymphalidae Systematics Group

Some related literature:

Churkin, 1999

New taxa of butterflies from Transbaikalia, Russia Atalanta 29 (1/4): 107-204

Dyar, 1903

A List of North American Lepidoptera and Key to the Literature of this Order of Insects Bull. U.S. natn. Mus., 52: xix, 723pp

Forster, 1968

Ergebnisse der zoologischen Forschungen von Dr. Z. Kaszab in der Mongolei. 147. Rhopalocera et Hesperiidae. II. Reichenbachia 11 (18): 189-205

Grum-Grshimailo, 1893

Lepidoptera Palearctica Nova (1) Horae Soc. ent. Ross. 27 (1): 127-129

Klots, 1940

New butterfly subspecies from Wyoming (Nymphalidae, Pieridae) Am. Mus. Novit. 1054: 1-6

Kosterin, 1994

Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Diurna) of the Katunskii mountain ridge (Central Altai) Actias. Russian Journal of Scientific Lepidopterology,1 (1-2): 45-76

Lederer, 1852

Versuch die europäischen Lepidopteren (einschlissig der ihrem Habitus nach noch zure europäischen Fauna gehörigen Arten Labradors, der asiatischen Türkei un des asiatischen Russlands) in möglichst natürliche Reihenfolge zu stellen, nebs Bemerkungen zu eineg Familien und Arten Verh. zool.-bot. Ver. Wien 2: 14-54, 65-126

Moore, [1875]

Descriptions of new Asiatic Lepidoptera Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1874 (4): 565-579, pls. 66-67

Seitz, [1909]

Die Großschmetterlinge des Palaearktischen Faunengebietes. 1. Die Palaearktischen Tagfalter Gross-Schmett. Erde 1 : 1-379

Staudinger, 1870

Beitrag zur Lepidopterenfauna Griechenlands Horae Soc. ent. ross. 7 (1870): 3-304, 3pls

Stichel, 1908

Ein Beitrag zur nordischen Schmetterlingsfauna un anknüpfende Bemerkungen Berl. ent. Z. 53 (1): 61-124, pl. 3

Warren, 1944

Review of the classification of the Argynnidi with a systematic revision of the genus Boloria (Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae) Trans. R. Ent. Soc. Lond. 94 (1): 1-101, 46pls

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