''Boloria alaskensis'', the mountain fritillary or Alaskan fritillary, is a species of fritillary butterfly in the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...

. It was described by

William Jacob Holland Rev William Jacob Holland FRSE LLD (August 16, 1848 – December 13, 1932) was the eighth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (1891–1901) and Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He was an accomplished zoologist and paleonto ...

in 1900 and is found in North America and North European Russia. The MONA or Hodges number for ''Boloria alaskensis'' is 4462.Pohl, G.R., Patterson, B., & Pelham, J.P. (2016).
Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
' The larvae feed on false bistort (''Polygonum bistortoides'') and alpine smartweed (''P. viviparum).'' It is very similar to ''

Boloria pales ''Boloria pales'', the shepherd's fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Brush-footed butterfly, Nymphalidae. It is found from the Cantabrian Mountains and the Pyrenees through the Alps and Apennine Mountains east to the Balkan, Carpathian Moun ...

''.

Subspecies

* ''Boloria alaskensis alaskensis'' (W. Holland, 1900) * ''Boloria alaskensis halli'' Klots, 1940

References

* Pelham, Jonathan P. (2008). "A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada with a complete bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature". ''Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera'', 40, xiv + 658.

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