Balkan fritillary

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Balkan fritillary
both at Yastrebets, Rila Mountains, Bulgaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Boloria
Species:	B. graeca
Binomial name
Boloria graeca (Staudinger, 1870)
Synonyms
Boloria (Boloria) graeca

The Balkan fritillary (Boloria graeca) is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae found in the southern Alps of Europe and the mid- to high-altitude Balkans. It inhabits grassy, flower-rich areas, often near the tree line. The larva feeds on Viola species.

Description

The orange upperside of the wings has a brown basal suffusion adorned with various marks of brown color, submarginal round spots and lines forming festoons. The hindwing forms an angle at its anterior edge. The underside of the forewings is identical, that of the hindwings presents silver designs, a line of small circles and greenish marbling in the female.

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  mounted specimen, dorsal side, France
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  mounted specimen, ventral side, France

Taxonomy

The species now called Bolaria graeca was described by German entomologist Otta Staudinger in 1870 as a subspecies under the basionym Argynnis pales var. graeca.

References

External links

• Media related to Boloria graeca at Wikimedia Commons
• Leps It
• Butterflies of Bulgaria