Subspecies Boloria chariclea ingens

Distinction from ssp. helena (occuring further to the south) is poor, and differences are based mostly on location.

Distinguished from other species of Boloria in the same region by a combination of pattern characters including: dark submarginal chevrons on upper wings point inward (not outward, nor flattened out in shape); underside with dark coloring predominantly warm reddish brown, sometimes leaning to purplish; light markings below not silvered; median band across hind wing fairly continuous, yellowish, usually with only a little brownish scaling included (mostly along veins); basal pale spots of lower hind wing roughly oval in shape, yellowish (or suffused brownish), not connecting to median pale band.

Middle Rocky Mountains of United States, roughly including nw. Wyoming, sw. Montana, adjacent Idaho.