Boloria aquilonaris

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Cranberry fritillary


Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Boloria
Species:	B. aquilonaris
Binomial name
*Boloria aquilonaris* Stichel, 1908

Boloria aquilonaris, the cranberry fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in northern and central Europe.^[1]

Description[edit]

The wingspan is 34–40 mm. Upperside orange with brown basal suffusion and adorned with various marks of brown colour, submarginal round spots and lines forming festoons.

The underside of the forewing is lighter and more coloured, that of the hindwing reddish and presenting silver spots.

Biology[edit]

The butterfly flies from June to August depending on the location. The larvae feed on cranberry and Andromeda polifolia.

Gallery[edit]

Both sides
June, 1998 in Saxony, Germany
Egg
Larvae in July 2010, Ardennes, Belgium
Mating

References[edit]

^ "Boloria Moore, 1900" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Taxon identifiers
Boloria aquilonaris	Wikidata: Q998962 Wikispecies: Boloria aquilonaris BioLib: 51573 CoL: 68NVH EoL: 156672 EPPO: BOLOAQ EUNIS: 47 Fauna Europaea: 441728 Fauna Europaea (new): 808d9842-e2c9-4827-b841-6d856041bab4 GBIF: 1912372 iNaturalist: 447520 IRMNG: 10264129 LepIndex: 153994 LoB: 5614 MaBENA: BolorAquil NBN: NHMSYS0000516235 NCBI: 405021 Observation.org: 670 Open Tree of Life: 691615

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