Boloria improba (Butler, 1877)

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 improba

Species name(s)

Boloria (Clossiana) improba (Butler, 1877) = Clossiana improba (Butler, 1877) = Argynnis improba Butler, 1877 = Brenthis frigga improba. [9, 10]

Dusky-winged Fritillary.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#5. Nenetsko-Novozemelsky tundrovy; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #15. Severo-Uralsky; #18. Nizhneobsky; #21. Severo-Yeniseisky; #29. Zapadno-Yakutsky; #30. Vostochno-Yakutsky; #32. Chukotsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Norway, the Soviet Union - the European part, Sweden. [1].
Norway (mainland), Russia, Finland, Sweden. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: Yakutsk East, the European North-Eastern, Western Yakutia, the Nenets tundra-Novaya Zemlya, Nizhneobsky, North Yenisei, the North Urals, Chukotka. [3].

Subspecies of Boloria improba

Clossiana improba acrocnema (Gall & Sperling, 1980). [9]
B. i. harryi. [9]
B. i. improba. [9]
B. i. improba Butler, 1877. [186]
B. i. improbula (Bryk, 1920). [9]
B. i. nunatak Scott, 1998. [186]
B. i. youngi (Holland, 1900). [9]
B. i. youngi W. Holland, 1900. [186]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

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)
[186] Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database, http://www.itis.gov