LEPIDOPTERA

• N Y M P H A L I D A E Swainson, 1827

  • BOLORIA Moore, 1900

    
    

    • Boloria aquilonaris (Stichel, 1908)

Boloria aquilonaris (Stichel, 1908)

• TYPE LOCALITY. Gallivar, Sweden.

• RANGE. From Fennoscandia and W. Europe to W. Siberia, the S. European part, N. Kazakhstan.

• DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. The nominotypical subspecies (= arsilache (Knoch, 1781), nom. praeoccup.: = lapponica (Staudinger, 1871), nom. praeoccup.; = alethea (Hemming, 1934)) is known from the N. European part of Russia, while specimens from the southern part of the range are larger and described under the name sima Churkin, 2000.

• HABITATS AND BIOLOGY. Wet meadows and different kinds of bog up to 1,000 m a.s.l. Flight period: June to July. In the northern part of the range, the larvae hibernate twice. Host plants in N. Europe (Henriksen & Kreutzer, 1982): Vaccmium, Oxycoccus pdiustris; in central Russia (Dantchenko & Nikolaevsky, in press): Oxicoccus microcarpus.

• SIMILAR SPECIES. Boloria alaskensis: HW with a distinct prominence with a top at vein M3; UPS of females with grey-green hue. B. banghaasi: on costal side, second black spot of postdiscal row of UPH (between veins M^ and M2) always larger than first and third ones.

Photo and text: Guide to the BUTTERFLIES OF RUSSIA and adjacent territories Volume 2. PENSOFT, Sofia - Moscow. 2000