Boloria selenis

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Boloria selenis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Boloria
Species:
B. selenis
Binomial name
Boloria selenis
(Eversmann, 1837) [1]
Synonyms
  • Argynnis selenisEversmann, 1837
  • Clossiana selenis
  • Clossiana sperandaGrosser, 1979
  • Argynnis selenis takamukuellaMatsumura, 1929
  • Clossiana festiva(Krulikovsky, 1893)
  • Argynnis selenis meinhardiSheljuzhko, 1929
  • Clossiana perunoviKorb, 1999

Boloria selenis is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found from the Volga basin to Japan.

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Description

The wingspan is 35–48 mm. Seitz A. selenis Ev. (67g). Above deeper brown than the preceding [hegemone], the black spots much larger than in hegemone, but not united to dentate bands as in aphirape. On the hindwing beneath the basal band consists of but 3 small pale spots which hardly touch each other; the median band is rather narrow and the pale spot placed in the same at the apex of the cell projects less distad and is less silvery than in the otherwise not dissimilar A. euphrosyne and selene. In typical specimens from the Ural Mts. the outer half of the hindwing beneath is scaled with yellow and brick-red, while in [subspecies] sibirica Ersch. (67g), from the mountains of Southern Siberia and Amurland, it is clouded with purplish violet. Widely distributed but very local, in June and much more plentiful again from August onward. [2]

Biology

Adults are on wing from June to August in one generation per year. In the Ussuri region there are two generations per year with adults on wing from May to June and from the end of July to September. The larvae feed on Viola species. [3]

Subspecies

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References

  1. "Clossiana selenis (Eversmann, 1837)" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Seitz. A. 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)PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. Russian Insects