Species Boloria eunomia - Bog Fritillary - Hodges#4463

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Habitat

Bog Fritillary - Boloria eunomia - female

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Papilionoidea (Butterflies and Skippers)

Family Nymphalidae (Brush-footed Butterflies)

Subfamily Heliconiinae (Heliconians and Fritillaries)

Tribe Argynnini (Fritillaries)

Genus Boloria (Lesser Fritillaries)

Species eunomia (Bog Fritillary - Hodges#4463)

Hodges Number

4463

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Papilio eunomia Esper 1799. Type locality: Kaliningrad, Russia

Boloria eunomia (Esper)

Papilio aphirape Hübner 1800. Type locality: Bavaria, Germany

Papilio tomyris Herbst 1800. Type locality: Prussia

Argynnis triclaris Hübner 1821. Type locality: none listed [suggested to be “Moravian missionaries in Labrador” by W. Holland (1928)]

Boloria eunomia triclaris (Hübner)

Argynnis lais Scudder 1875. Type locality: “Caribou Island, Straits of Belle Isle, Labrador...also...at Mackenzie River...Colorado”

Brenthis aphirape alticola W. Barnes & McDunnough 1913. Type locality: Hall Valley, Park County, Colorado [Preoccupied by Argynnis alticola Sushkin & Tsetverikov 1907; a subspecies of Boloria (Clossiana) [chariclea] angarensis Ershov]

Brenthis aphirape dawsoni W. Barnes & McDunnough 1916. Type locality: Hymers, Ontario

Boloria eunomia dawsoni (W. Barnes & McDunnough)

Brenthis aphirape nichollae W. Barnes & Benjamin 1926. Type locality: Rocky Mountains

Argynnis aphirape caelestis Hemming 1933 [Proposed to replace Brenthis aphirape alticola W. Barnes and McDunnough 1913, preoccupied, with the same data (Code Article 60.3)]

Boloria eunomia caelestis (Hemming)

Boloria eunomia nichollae (W. Barnes & Benjamin)

Brenthis (Clossiana) aphirape denali Klots 1940. Type locality: McKinley National Park, Alaska [Denali National Park]

Boloria eunomia denali (Klots)

Clossiana aphirape laddi Klots 1940. Type locality: Snowy Range, Albany County, Wyoming

Boloria eunomia laddi (Klots)

Boloria eunomia ursadentis Ferris & Groothuis 1971. Type locality: Beartooth Pass, 1/2 mile s. of Montana-Wyoming border, Park County, Wyoming

There are many more names applied to populations, forms, and aberrations in Eurasia.

Range

Circumboreal. In North America from Alaska to Newfoundland and southward in Rockies to Colorado and into Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Maine.

Habitat

Primarily bogs in boreal and high mountain forests.

Contributed by Joel Kits on 13 June, 2005 - 9:53pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, David Ferguson
Last updated 28 September, 2017 - 7:25pm

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