Boloria
Boloria | |
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Weaver's Fritillary, Boloria dia | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Subfamily: | Heliconiinae |
Tribe: | Heliconiini |
Subtribe: | Boloriina |
Genus: | Boloria Moore, 1900 |
Species | |
Several, see text | |
Synonyms | |
Baloria "Moore, 1900" (lapsus) |
Boloria is a brush-footed butterfly (Nymphalidae) genus. Clossiana is usually included with it nowadays, though some authors still consider it distinct and it seems to warrant recognition as a subgenus at least.
Species
Listed alphabetically.[1][2][3]
- Boloria acrocnema Gall & Sperling, 1980 – Uncompahgre Fritillary
- Boloria alaskensis (Holland, 1900) – Mountain Fritillary
- Boloria aquilonaris (Stichel, 1908) – Cranberry Fritillary
- Boloria alberta (W.H. Edwards, 1890) – Alberta Fritillary
- Boloria astarte (Doubleday, [1847]) – Astarte Fritillary
- Boloria bellona (Fabricius, 1775) – Meadow Fritillary
- Boloria caucasica (Lederer, 1852)
- Boloria chariclea (Schneider, 1794) – Arctic Fritillary or Purplish Fritillary
- Boloria dia (Linnaeus, 1767) – Weaver's Fritillary, Violet Fritillary
- Boloria epithore (Edwards, [1864]) – Pacific Fritillary
- Boloria eunomia (Esper, [1800]) – Bog Fritillary, Ocellate Bog Fritillary
- Boloria euphrosyne (Linnaeus, 1758) – Pearl-bordered Fritillary
- Boloria freija (Thunberg, 1791) – Freya's Fritillary, Freija Fritillary, or Zigzag Fritillary
- Boloria frigga (Thunberg, 1791) – Frigga Fritillary, Willow Bog Fritillary
- Boloria frigidalis Warren, 1944
- Boloria improba (Butler, 1877) – Dingy Fritillary
- Boloria graeca (Staudinger, 1870) – Balkan Fritillary
- Boloria jerdoni (Lang, 1868) – Jerdon's Silverspot
- Boloria kriemhild (Butler, 1877) – Relict Fritillary
- Boloria napaea (Hoffmannsegg, 1804) – Napaea Fritillary or Mountain Fritillary
- Boloria natazhati (Gibson, 1920) – Cryptic Fritillary or Beringian Fritillary
- Boloria neopales (Nakahara, 1926)
- Boloria pales (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – Shepherd's Fritillary
- Boloria polaris (Boisduval, [1828]) – Polaris Fritillary
- Boloria purpurea Churkin, 1999
- Boloria selene (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary or Silver-bordered Fritillary
- Boloria selenis (Eversmann, 1837)
- Boloria sipora (Moore, [1875])
- Boloria thore (Hübner, [1803]) – Thor's Fritillary
- Boloria titania (Esper, 1793) – Titania's Fritillary, Purple Bog Fritillary
Brachiopod
Grunt described a brachiopod genus in 1973 under the same name. Since each code of biological nomenclature allows only for one genus with the same name, the brachiopod genus is in need of renaming. See Boloria (brachiopod).
References
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- ↑ Boloria, funet.fi
- ↑ Fritillaries, Butterflies of Canada
- ↑ Jim P. Brock, Kenn Kaufman (2003) Kaufman Field Guide to Butterflies of North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Further reading
- Glassberg, Jeffrey Butterflies through Binoculars, The West (2001)
- Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. Butterflies of British Columbia (2001)
- James, David G. and Nunnallee, David Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies (2011)
- Pelham, Jonathan Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (2008)
- Pyle, Robert Michael The Butterflies of Cascadia (2002)
External links
- Butterflies and Moths of North America
- Butterflies of America
- images representing Boloria at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- images representing Boloria at Encyclopedia of Life