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

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  • 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

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The larva feeds on Vaccinium.

Etymology

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Toponymic Angara

References

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  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)   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.