''Boloria'' is a brush-footed
butterfly
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...
(
Nymphalidae
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species ha ...
)
genus
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. ''Clossiana'' is usually included with it nowadays, though some authors still consider it distinct and it seems to warrant recognition as a
subgenus
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In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between the ge ...
at least.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
[Jim P. Brock, Kenn Kaufman (2003) ''Kaufman Field Guide to Butterflies of North America''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.]
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Boloria acrocnema
The Uncompahgre fritillary butterfly (''Boloria improba acrocnema'') is a species of butterfly in the Order Lepidoptera: Family Nymphalidae that is Endemism, endemic to Colorado, USA.U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (2018). Uncompahgre Fritillary B ...
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Gall & Sperling, 1980 – Uncompahgre fritillary
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Boloria alaskensis''
(Holland, 1900) – mountain fritillary (Arctic America, Alaska to Hudson Bay, Wyoming, Polar Urals, Yamal Peninsula, Transbaikalia, Chukotka, Wrangel Island)
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Boloria aquilonaris''
(Stichel, 1908) – cranberry fritillary
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Boloria alberta''
(W.H. Edwards, 1890) – Alberta fritillary
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Boloria angarensis''
(Erschoff, 1870) (Transbaikalia, South Siberia, Far East Yakutia, Polar Urals, Yamal Peninsula, Sayan, Tuva mountains, Amur, Ussuri, North Korea, Northeast China)
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Boloria astarte''
(Doubleday, 847 – Astarte fritillary
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Boloria bellona''
(Fabricius, 1775) – meadow fritillary
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Boloria caucasica''
(Lederer, 1852) (Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkey)
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Boloria chariclea''
(Schneider, 1794) – Arctic fritillary or purplish fritillary
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Boloria dia''
(Linnaeus, 1767) – Weaver's fritillary or violet fritillary
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Boloria distincta''
(Gibson, 1920) (Yukon to British Columbia, Polar Urals, Transbaikalia, Yakutia, Chukotka)
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Boloria elatus''
(Staudinger, 1892) (Transbaikalia)
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Boloria epithore''
(Edwards, 864 – Pacific fritillary
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Boloria erda''
(Christoph, 1893) (Yakutia, Sayan, Transbaikalia, Magadan)
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Boloria erubescens''
(Staudinger, 1901) (Tian-Shan, Ghissar-Darvaz, Pamirs-Alai)
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Boloria eunomia''
(Esper, 800 – bog fritillary, ocellate bog fritillary
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Boloria euphrosyne''
(Linnaeus, 1758) – pearl-bordered fritillary
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Boloria freija''
(Thunberg, 1791) – Freya's fritillary, Freija fritillary or zigzag fritillary
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Boloria frigga''
(Thunberg, 1791) – Frigga fritillary, willow bog fritillary
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Boloria frigidalis''
Warren, 1944 (Altai, Sayan, Tuva mountains, Mongolia)
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Boloria improba''
(Butler, 1877) – dingy fritillary
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Boloria iphigenia''
(Graeser, 1888) (Japan, east Amur, Ussuri and northeast China)
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Boloria gong''
(Oberthür, 1884) (Tibet, West China, North China)
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Boloria graeca''
(Staudinger, 1870) – Balkan fritillary
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Boloria jerdoni''
(Lang, 1868) – Jerdon's silverspot
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Boloria kriemhild''
(Butler, 1877) – relict fritillary (Montana, Wyoming)
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Boloria matveevi''
Gorbunov & Korshunov, 1995 (Altai)
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Boloria napaea''
(Hoffmannsegg, 1804) – napaea fritillary or mountain fritillary
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Boloria natazhati''
(Gibson, 1920) – cryptic fritillary or Beringian fritillary
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Boloria neopales''
(Nakahara, 1926) (Sakhalin)
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Boloria oscarus''
(Eversmann, 1844) (Siberia, Amur, Ussuri, Sakhalin, Yakutia)
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Boloria pales''
(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – Shepherd's fritillary
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Boloria perryi''
(Butler, 1882) (southern Ussuri, North Korea, Amur)
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Boloria polaris''
(Boisduval, 828 – Polaris fritillary
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Boloria purpurea''
Churkin, 1999 (Barguzin Mountains in Buryatia)
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Boloria selene''
(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – small pearl-bordered fritillary or silver-bordered fritillary
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Boloria selenis''
(Eversmann, 1837)
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Boloria sipora''
(Moore, 875 (Pamirs to Alai, Tian-Shan, West Himalaya)
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Boloria thore''
(Hübner, 803 – Thor's fritillary
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Boloria titania''
(Esper, 1793) – Titania's fritillary or purple bog fritillary
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Boloria tritonia''
(Böber, 1812) (Baikal, Amur, Ussuri)
Brachiopod
Grunt described a
brachiopod
Brachiopods (), phylum (biology), phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Brachiopod valves are hinged at the rear e ...
genus in 1973 under the same name. Since each code of
biological nomenclature
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allows only for one genus with the same name, the brachiopod genus is in need of renaming.
References
Further reading
* Glassberg, Jeffrey (2001). ''Butterflies through Binoculars: The West''.
* Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. (2001). ''Butterflies of British Columbia''.
* James, David G. and Nunnallee, David (2011). ''Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies''.
* Pelham, Jonathan (2008). ''Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada''.
* Pyle, Robert Michael (2002). ''The Butterflies of Cascadia''.
External links
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Nymphalidae genera
Taxa named by Frederic Moore
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