''Boloria angarensis '' is a small

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

found in the

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

that belongs to the browns family.

Subspecies

*''Boloria angarensis angarensis'' Transbaikalia, South Siberia *''Boloria angarensis herzi'' (Wnukowsky, 1927) North Transbaikalia, Far East Yakutia *''Boloria angarensis sedychi'' (Weiss, 1964) Polar Urals, Yamal Peninsula *''Boloria angarensis alticola'' (Sushkin & Tschetverikov, 1907) Sayan, Tuva (mountains) *''Boloria angarensis hakutozana'' (Matsumura, 1927) Amur, Ussuri, N.Korea, NE.China *''Boloria angarensis miakei'' (Matsumura, 1919) Sakhalin

Description from Seitz

A. angarensis Ersch. (67h). About the same size as the previous A. iphigenia'' Graes">Boloria_iphigenia.html" ;"title="'Boloria iphigenia">A. iphigenia'' Graes; the forewing less elongate. The underside of the hindwing bears a very close resemblance to that of ''Boloria selenis">A. selenis sibirica'' , but the costal spot of the median band is essentially different in shape, as shown in the figure. Moreover, ''angarensis'' has a row of silvery marginal spots, which are absent in ''sibirica'' or only indicated. The female larger and paler. — In Amurland, in June, locally very common.Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, ''Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter'', 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)

Biology

The larva feeds on ''Vaccinium''.

References

Boloria Butterflies described in 1870 Butterflies of Asia {{Heliconiinae-stub