AGRIADES AQUILO
| English name: | Arctic Blue |
| Norwegian name: | Polarblåvinge |
| Auctor: | (Boisduval, [1832]) |
| Original description: | as Argus aquilo in Icones Hist. Lep. 1:62. |
| Syn.: | - - - |
| Type locality of nominate species: | "North Cape, Siberia to Altai, and Labrador". |
| Subspecies in Norway: | A. quilo aquilo. |
| Worldwide distribution: | The extreme northern parts of Fennoscandia and Siberia to the Pacific |
| Ocean, western North America from the Bering Strait to Washington state. | |
| Notes: | Boisduval mentioned the type locality to include Labrador. Specimens from |
| this area, however, belong to A. franklinii. The true type locality of | |
| A. aquilo has been selected to be North Cape. Consequently, A. aquilo aquilo | |
| inhabits northern Fennoscandia and the European part of Siberia. Specimens | |
| from Central Siberia to Kamchatka belong to A. aquilo wosnesenskii | |
| (Ménétriés, 1855). The subspecific classification of A. aquilo in North | |
| America needs to be clarified. |
A. aquilo aquilo | |
| Auctor: | (Boisduval, [1832]) |
| Syn.: | - - - |
| Type locality of subspecies: | "North Cape, Siberia to Altai, and Labrador". |
| Distribution in Norway: | North Norway; from Hattfjelldal to the Norwegian-Russian border. |
| Notes: | Some authors place A. aquilo as a subspecies of A. glandon, a |
| species flying in the Alps, Pyrenees and Sierra Nevada. The morphological | |
| differences between A. quilo and A. glandon prove that A. aquilo is a good species. | |
| Described forms found in Norway: | - - - |
| Etymology: | aquilo (Greek) = the northern wind. |
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| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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AGRIADES AQUILO AQUILO |
| Specimen | Kommune | Coll. date | Legit | In coll. | Remarks | ||
| 1 | 175 | FN | Porsanger | 04-VII-1879 | Wilhelm Maribo Schøyen | ZMO | m |
| 2 | 175 | FN | Porsanger | 04-VII-1879 | Wilhelm Maribo Schøyen | ZMO | m |
| 3 | 127 | NSI | Saltdal | 12-VIII-1881 | Wilhelm Maribo Schøyen | ZMO | m |
| 4 | 127 | NSI | Saltdal | 06-VII-1918 | Johan Rygge | ZMO | m |
| 5 | 127 | NSI | Saltdal | VII-1918 | Johan Rygge | ZMO | m - ventral view |
| 6 | 175 | FN | Porsanger | 04-VII-1879 | Wilhelm Maribo Schøyen | ZMO | f |
| 7 | 127 | NSI | Saltdal | VII-1918 | Joahn Rygge | ZMO | f |
| 8 | 175 | FN | Porsanger | 04-VII-1879 | Wilhelm Maribo Schøyen | ZMO | f |
| 9 | 127 | NSI | Saltdal | VII-1918 | Johan Rygge | ZMO | f |
| 10 | 127 | NSI | Saltdal | 06-VII-1918 | Johan Rygge | ZMO | f - ventral view |
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AGRIADES AQUILO AQUILO |
| Specimen | Kommune | Coll. date | Remarks | ||
| 1 | 154 | TRI | Balsfjord | 11-JUN-2002 | m |
| 2 | 154 | TRI | Balsfjord | 11-JUN-2002 | m (ventral view) |
| 3 | 154 | TRI | Balsfjord | 11-JUN-2002 | f |
Habitat of Agriades aquilo;
granite rocks make the perfect camouflage for the Arctic Blue (Troms fylke, North
Norway, elevation 500 m, JUN-2002)
For
further notes, photos and maps of this species, check out
the Lepidoptera
homepage of the Zoological Museum of Oslo/Norwegian Entomological
Society/Skogforsk
(text in
Norwegian).
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