''Boloria selenis'' is a species of 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 is found from the
Volga basin
The Volga (; russian: Во́лга, a=Ru-Волга.ogg, p=ˈvoɫɡə) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of , and a catchmen ...
to
Japan.
Description
The
wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan o ...
is 35–48 mm. Seitz ''A. selenis'' Ev. (67g). Above deeper brown than the preceding
'hegemone'' the black spots much larger than in ''hegemone'', but not united to dentate bands as in ''aphirape''. On the hindwing beneath the basal band consists of but 3 small pale spots which hardly touch each other; the median band is rather narrow and the pale spot placed in the same at the apex of the cell projects less distad and is less silvery than in the otherwise not dissimilar ''A. euphrosyne'' and ''selene''. In typical specimens from the Ural Mts. the outer half of the hindwing beneath is scaled with yellow and brick-red, while in
ubspecies''sibirica'' Ersch. (67g), from the mountains of Southern Siberia and Amurland, it is clouded with purplish violet. Widely distributed but very local, in June and much more plentiful again from August onward.
Biology
Adults are on wing from June to August in one generation per year. In the Ussuri region there are two generations per year with adults on wing from May to June and from the end of July to September.
The larvae feed on ''
Viola
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*Violin family ...
'' species.
Russian Insects
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Subspecies
*''B. s. selenis'' (southern Urals, Volga valley)
*''B. s. sibirica'' (Erschoff, 1870) (Siberia, Amur)
*''B. s. samkoi'' (Sheljuzhko, 1931) (Polar Urals, Yamal Peninsula)
*''B. s. kononovi'' (Kurentzov, 1970) (north-eastern Siberia)
*''B. s. chosensis'' (Matsumura, 1925) (Ussuri)
*''B. s. onorensis'' (Matsumura, 1925) (Sakhalin)
References
Butterflies described in 1837
Boloria
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