Boloria polaris (Boisduval, 1828)

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 polaris

Species name(s)

Boloria (Clossiana) polaris (Boisduval, 1828) = Clossiana polaris (Boisduval, [1828]) = groenlandica (Skinner, 1892) = americana (Strand, 1905) = Brenthis polaris = Boloria polaris polaris. [9, 10]

Polar Fritillary.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8569

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#2. Kolsky; #5. Nenetsko-Novozemelsky tundrovy; #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 Russia: Eastern Yakutia, Western Yakutia, Kola, the Nenets tundra-Novaya Zemlya, Nizhneobsky, North Yenisei, the North Urals, Chukotka. [3].

Subspecies of Boloria polaris

Clossiana polaris americana Strand, 1906. [187]
B. p. stellata (Masters, 1972). [9]
B. p. stellata Masters, 1972. [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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org