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 ...
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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 ...
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genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
. ''Clossiana'' is usually included with it nowadays, though some authors still consider it distinct and it seems to warrant recognition as a
subgenus
In biology, a subgenus ( subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.
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 ...
Boloria aquilonaris
''Boloria aquilonaris'', the cranberry fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in northern and central Europe.Boloria alberta'' (W.H. Edwards, 1890) – Alberta fritillary
* '' Boloria angarensis'' (Erschoff, 1870) (Transbaikalia, South Siberia, Far East Yakutia, Polar Urals, Yamal Peninsula, Sayan, Tuva mountains, Amur, Ussuri, North Korea, Northeast China)
* '' Boloria astarte'' (Doubleday,
847
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Year 847 ( DCCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Europe
* Danish Vikings land in the Breton March (western part of Gaul). Duke Nominoe of Brittany fails to withstand them ...
Boloria dia
''Boloria dia'', the Weaver's fritillary or violet fritillary, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. The name Weaver's fritillary is in honor of Richard Weaver (entomologist), Richard Weaver, an English insect collector who claimed to have o ...
Boloria distincta
''Boloria'' is a brush-footed butterfly (Nymphalidae) genus. ''Clossiana'' is usually included with it nowadays, though some authors still consider it distinct and it seems to warrant recognition as a subgenus at least.
Species
Listed alphabetic ...
Boloria epithore
''Boloria epithore'', the Pacific fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in western North America from California to British Columbia and Alberta.
The wingspan is . The butterfly flies from June to July.
The larvae fe ...
'' (Edwards,
864
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Year 864 ( DCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Spring – Emperor Louis II (the Younger) marches with a Frankish army against Rome. While en route to the papa ...
800
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– bog fritillary, ocellate bog fritillary
* '' Boloria euphrosyne'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – pearl-bordered fritillary
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Boloria freija
''Boloria freija'', the Freija fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae with a circumboreal distribution. It occurs in bogs and tundra. Its range includes Northern Europe to the north of 60° N, occasionally more southern locations, ...
828
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Year 828 ( DCCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Siege of Syracuse: The Muslims under Asad ibn al-Furat defeat a Byzantine relief army sent from Paler ...
875
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Year 875 ( DCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* August 12 – Emperor Louis II dies in Brescia, after having named his cousin Carloman, son of King Louis th ...
(Pamirs to Alai, Tian-Shan, West Himalaya)
* '' Boloria thore'' (Hübner,
803
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Year 803 ( DCCCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Byzantine Empire
* Emperors Nikephoros I and Charlemagne settle their imperial boundaries in the Adriatic Sea, and sign the Pa ...
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
Nomenclature codes or codes of nomenclature are the various rulebooks that govern the naming of living organisms. Standardizing the Binomial nomenclature, scientific names of biological organisms allows researchers to discuss findings (including ...
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''.
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Encyclopedia of Life
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