Boloria tritonia

Boloria tritonia is a species of butterfly found in the East Palearctic that belongs to the Nymphalidae family.

Boloria tritonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Boloria
Species:
B. tritonia
Binomial name
Boloria tritonia
(Böber, 1812)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio tritonia Böber, 1812
  • Clossiana tritonia (Böber, 1812)

Description

The hind wing underside ground colour is ochre-orange, the discal band evenly ochre or whitish-coloured, with a slight suffusion of dark scales. The general pattern is more bright and the dark basal suffusion on hind wing upperside is less expressed than in related species and the male genitalia are diagnostic.[2]

Subspecies
  • B. t. tritonia — Baikal
  • B. t. amphilochus (Ménétriés, 1859) — Amur, Ussuri
  • B. t. barkalovi (Dubatolov, 2010)

Biology

The larva on feeds on Saxifraga bronchialis.

See also

References
  1. Böber, 1812 Contribution de la description de quelques nouvelles espèces de papillons découverts en Sibérie Mém. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou 3: 20-21, 72
  2. Butterflies of the Asian part of Russia by Y.P. Korshunov and P.Y. Gorbunov


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