Boloria selene (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

• Argynnis selene. [85].

Distribution

• Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia,Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, 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, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Kamchatka, Karelia, Kola, Krasnoyarsk, Nenets tundra-Novaya Zemlya,Nizhne-Amur, Nizhneobsky, Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, the North-Yenisei North Okhotsk, North Urals, Mid-Amur, the Volga-Average, Average Okhotsk, Mid-Ural, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
• It is widely distributed in North America and Eurasia, where it is found from England to Japan. In Europe, it is absent mainly only in the Mediterranean and Ireland. In the mountains it rises to an altitude of 2000 and even 2400 m [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

• One of the most common mother-of-pearl flowers, similar in appearance and habitat to the euphrosyne(B. euphrosyne). The length of the front wing is 1.8-2 cm. The top of the wings is reddish-brown with a black pattern. The pattern, as well as the size of the butterfly, can vary greatly, sometimes there are dark specimens with an expanded pattern on the upper side of the wings, while the brown color remains only at the edges of the wings. The light yellow band on the underside of the hindwings is most often decorated with three silver spots (rather than one, as in euphrosyne), and a row of black dots is located in front of the middle band. [85].

General info about Imago

• Places of summer — water-filled, wet meadows, swampy places, forest edges and forest roads, thickets of shrubs and sparse forests. [85].

Imago lifespan

• 2 generations: late May-early July and late July-mid-September (Central Europe). In the north of the range and in the mountains — 1 generation from June to August. [85].

General info about Larva

• The caterpillar is dark, red-brown with white dots arranged in stripes on the back. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

• Viola. [28].
• Фиалка собачья, фиалка болотная, земляника, голубика, дикорастущие анютины глазки. [85].

Larva lifespan

• The larva occurs in two generations: September-May and July. [85].

Pupa

• The pupa of Boloria selene is yellow-brown with black spots. [85].

Egg

• The egg is light green with 18 longitudinal grooves. [85].

Overwintering stage

• The caterpillar overwinters. [85].

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