Boloria tritonia is a species of butterfly found in the East Palearctic that belongs to the Nymphalidae family.
| Boloria tritonia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Boloria |
| Species: | B. tritonia
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| Binomial name | |
| Boloria tritonia | |
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Description
editThe 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
edit- B. t. tritonia — Baikal
- B. t. amphilochus (Ménétriés, 1859) — Amur, Ussuri
- B. t. barkalovi (Dubatolov, 2010)
Biology
editThe larva on feeds on Saxifraga bronchialis.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Böber, 1812 Contribution de la description de quelques nouvelles espèces de papillons découverts en Sibérie Mém. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou 3: 20-21, 72
- ^ Butterflies of the Asian part of Russia by Y.P. Korshunov and P.Y. Gorbunov
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