Boloria titania (Esper, 1793)

Имаго (Boloria titania)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Heliconiinae → tribe Argynnini → genus Boloria → subgenus Clossiana → species Boloria titania

Species name(s)

Boloria (Clossiana) titania (Esper, 1793) = Clossiana titania (Esper, [1793]) = Papilio titania Esper, 1794. [3, 9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #15. Severo-Uralsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin.

Forewing length

21—26 mm.

Primary colors

Orange, Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Over-wintering stage

Larva.

Имаго (Boloria titania)

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Clossiana titania. [3].

Distribution

Austria, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia and the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Switzerland, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Bulgaria ?, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia . [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Trans-Baikal, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Sakhalin, the North Urals,Mid-Amur, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

General info about Imago

Fore wing length of males - 21-23 mm, females - 23-26 mm.
In the Urals lives in damp meadows in mountainous coniferous forests. [86].
In some regions of Russia declared a kind of regional Red Books (Kaluga (2006), Tver (2002), Yaroslavl (2004), in the Moscow region is subject to protection since 1978) [110].

Imago lifespan

According to various sources the flight of butterflies recorded from May to early August. The main flight of June and July. [109].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Polygonum, Viola. [28].
Poligonum bistorta, Viola, Filipéndula, Trollius [109].

Overwintering stage

Caterpillar [PC106].

Subspecies of Boloria titania

Clossiana titania bivina (Fruhstorfer, 1908). [9]
B. t. blachieri Fruhstorfer, 1909. [187]
B. t. blandina Fruhstorfer, 1908. [187]
B. t. bosna Fruhstorfer, 1908. [187]
B. t. dinara Fruhstorfer, 1908. [187]
B. t. halesa Fruhstorfer, 1908. [187]
B. t. jugurtha Fruhstorfer, 1909. [187]
B. t. julia Hemming, 1934. [187]
B. t. lemagneni Plantrou, 1960. [187]
B. t. minuscula Eisner, 1942. [187]
B. t. miyakei (Matsumura, 1919). [9]
B. t. nansetsuzana Doi, 1935. [187]
B. t. pralognana Fruhstorfer, 1908. [187]
B. t. rossicus Hemming, 1933. [187]
B. t. serena Fruhstorfer, 1908. [187]
B. t. staudingeri (Wnukowsky, 1929). [9]
B. t. titania. [9]
B. t. titania Esper, 1793. [186]
B. t. transsylvanica Tiltscher, 1913. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Simon Coombes, Maxim Klepikov.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov, Shamil Murtazin.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[86] Горбунов П. Ю., Ольшванг В. Н. Бабочки Южного Урала. Справочник-определитель. Екатеринбург: Сократ, 2008
[109] http://zhelva.narod.ru/
[110] Красная книга Московской области (kkmo2.verhovye.ru)
[186] Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database, http://www.itis.gov
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[PC106] Sergei Kotov