BOLORIA CHARICLEA
| English name: | UK: Arctic Fritillary. US: Purple Bog Fritillary. |
| Norwegian name: | Arktisk perlemorvinge |
| Auctor: | (Schneider, 1794) |
| Original description: | as Papilio chariclea in Lapland. Schmett. Schneid. Mag. 5:588. |
| Syn.: | titania Scott, 1986 |
| Type locality of nominate species: | Lapland. |
| Worldwide distribution: | Polar tundra of Europe and Asia, Greenland, Alaska, North Canada. |
| Subspecies in Norway: | B.c.chariclea. |
| Recognized subspecies: | B.c.chariclea (Schneider, 1794) - Arctic Fennoscandia, Kola, Komi |
| to Northern Urals. | |
| B.c.arctica (Zetterstedt, 1840) - North America from Greenland to | |
| Yukon Territory, tundra of Asian part of Russia, incl. Wrangel Is. | |
| (= B.c.tshuktsha Dubatolov & Korshunov, 1998). |
B. chariclea chariclea | |
| Auctor: | (Schneider, 1794) |
| Syn.: | - - - |
| Type locality of subspecies: | Lapland. |
| Distribution in Norway: | North Norway; northern Troms and Finnmark. |
| Notes: | - - - |
| Described forms found in Norway: | - - - |
| Etymology: | Chariclea: a nymph (Greek mythology). |

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BOLORIA CHARICLEA |
| Specimen | Kommune | Coll. date | Legit | In coll. | Remarks | ||
| 1 | 165 | FV | Alta | 20-VII-1924 | Emil Barca | ZMO | |
| 2 | 166 | FN | Porsanger | 03-VIII-1924 | Emil Barca | ZMO | |
| 3 | 169 | FØ | Sør-Varanger | 06-VII-1990 | Øistein Berg & Reidar Voith | ZMO | |
| 4 | 181 | FN | Porsanger | ZMO | ventral view | ||
| 5 | 165 | FV | Alta | 16-VII.1991 | Per Tangen | ZMO | ventral view |
| 6 | 155 | TRI | Storfjord | 09-VIII-1987 | Geir E. E. Søli | ZMO | ventral view |
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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list of the Norwegian butterflies |
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