Boloria tritonia

Species of butterfly

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)

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

## Description[edit]

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[edit]

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

## Biology[edit]

The larva on feeds on Saxifraga bronchialis.

## See also[edit]

* List of butterflies of Europe

## References[edit]

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

Taxon identifiers

Boloria tritonia|

* Wikidata: Q13441554
* Wikispecies: Boloria tritonia
* BioLib: 568288
* EoL: 4073459
* EUNIS: 91005
* Fauna Europaea: 441706
* Fauna Europaea (new): 4ddd1284-3c1e-49c6-9583-25899444bd7d
* GBIF: 9041405
* iNaturalist: 1007804

Clossiana tritonia|

* Wikidata: Q48973813
* iNaturalist: 334993

Papilio tritonia|

* Wikidata: Q109585230
* GBIF: 9005667

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