Genus of brush-footed butterflies
Boloria 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 fritillaryBoloria alaskensis (Holland, 1900) – mountain fritillary (Arctic America, Alaska to Hudson Bay, Wyoming, Polar Urals, Yamal Peninsula, Transbaikalia, Chukotka, Wrangel Island)Boloria aquilonaris (Stichel, 1908) – cranberry fritillaryBoloria alberta (W.H. Edwards, 1890) – Alberta fritillaryBoloria angarensis (Erschoff, 1870) (Transbaikalia, South Siberia, Far East Yakutia, Polar Urals, Yamal Peninsula, Sayan, Tuva mountains, Amur, Ussuri, North Korea, Northeast China)Boloria astarte (Doubleday, [1847]) – Astarte fritillaryBoloria bellona (Fabricius, 1775) – meadow fritillaryBoloria caucasica (Lederer, 1852) (Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkey)Boloria chariclea (Schneider, 1794) – Arctic fritillary or purplish fritillaryBoloria dia (Linnaeus, 1767) – Weaver's fritillary or violet fritillaryBoloria distincta (Gibson, 1920) (Yukon to British Columbia, Polar Urals, Transbaikalia, Yakutia, Chukotka)Boloria elatus (Staudinger, 1892) (Transbaikalia)Boloria epithore (Edwards, [1864]) – Pacific fritillaryBoloria erda (Christoph, 1893) (Yakutia, Sayan, Transbaikalia, Magadan)Boloria erubescens (Staudinger, 1901) (Tian-Shan, Ghissar-Darvaz, Pamirs-Alai)Boloria eunomia (Esper, [1800]) – bog fritillary, ocellate bog fritillaryBoloria euphrosyne (Linnaeus, 1758) – pearl-bordered fritillaryBoloria freija (Thunberg, 1791) – Freya's fritillary, Freija fritillary or zigzag fritillaryBoloria frigga (Thunberg, 1791) – Frigga fritillary, willow bog fritillaryBoloria frigidalis Warren, 1944 (Altai, Sayan, Tuva mountains, Mongolia)Boloria improba (Butler, 1877) – dingy fritillaryBoloria iphigenia (Graeser, 1888) (Japan, east Amur, Ussuri and northeast China)Boloria gong (Oberthür, 1884) (Tibet, West China, North China)Boloria graeca (Staudinger, 1870) – Balkan fritillaryBoloria jerdoni (Lang, 1868) – Jerdon's silverspotBoloria kriemhild (Butler, 1877) – relict fritillary (Montana, Wyoming)Boloria matveevi Gorbunov & Korshunov, 1995 (Altai)Boloria napaea (Hoffmannsegg, 1804) – napaea fritillary or mountain fritillaryBoloria natazhati (Gibson, 1920) – cryptic fritillary or Beringian fritillaryBoloria neopales (Nakahara, 1926) (Sakhalin)Boloria oscarus (Eversmann, 1844) (Siberia, Amur, Ussuri, Sakhalin, Yakutia)Boloria pales (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – Shepherd's fritillaryBoloria perryi (Butler, 1882) (southern Ussuri, North Korea, Amur)Boloria polaris (Boisduval, [1828]) – Polaris fritillaryBoloria purpurea Churkin, 1999 (Barguzin Mountains in Buryatia)Boloria selene (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – small pearl-bordered fritillary or silver-bordered fritillaryBoloria selenis (Eversmann, 1837) Boloria sipora (Moore, [1875]) (Pamirs to Alai, Tian-Shan, West Himalaya)Boloria thore (Hübner, [1803]) – Thor's fritillaryBoloria titania (Esper, 1793) – Titania's fritillary or purple bog fritillaryBoloria tritonia (Böber, 1812) (Baikal, Amur, Ussuri)
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.
References
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^ "Boloria Moore, 1900" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms ^ 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 (2001). Butterflies through Binoculars: The West .
Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. (2001). Butterflies of British Columbia .
James, David G. and Nunnallee, David (2011). Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies .
Pelham, Jonathan (2008). Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada .
Pyle, Robert Michael (2002). The Butterflies of Cascadia .
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