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