Boloria polaris (original) (raw)

English name:

UK: Arctic Fritillary. US: Polar Fritillary.

Norwegian name:

Polarperlemorvinge.

Auctor:

(Boisduval, 1829)

Original description:

as Argynnis polaris in Eur. Lep. Index Method: 15.

Syn.:

groenlandica (Skinner, 1892)

Type locality of nominate species:

Nordkapp (North Cape) Peninsula, Norway.

Worldwide distribution:

Holarctic; from the extreme north of Fennoscandia across Siberia

to north-eastern Russia. North-western, northern (!) and eastern

coast of Greenland, Alaska, northern Canada and Nunavut.

Distribution in Norway:

North Norway. Not found south of Saltdalen, Nordland.

Subspecies in Norway:

B.p.polaris.

Worldwide subspecies:

B.p.polaris (Boisduval, 1829) - N Fennoscandia, Greenland.

B.p."noname" sensu Gorbunov, 2001 - Polar Ural, tundra zone of Siberia, ?Novaya Zemlya Is.

B.p.kurentzovi (Wyatt, 1861) [= B.p.digna (Churkin, 2001)] - Chukotka Peninsula, ?Wrangel Is.

B.p.erda (Christoph, 1893) [= B.p.kitoica (Belik, 1996)] [= B.p.puella (Churkin, 1999)] - C and E Siberia.

Etymology:

polaris: Polos = pole of the earth.