Oeneis bore
White-veined Arctic | |
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Oeneis bore pansa figure 4 | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Oeneis |
Species: | O. bore
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Binomial name | |
Oeneis bore | |
Subspecies | |
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Oeneis bore, the white-veined Arctic or Arctic grayling,[1] is a butterfly, a species of Satyrinae that occurs in North America and Asia.
Description[]
The wingspan is 37 to 49 mm.[2] The dorsal view is a dull greyish brown while the females are often tawny. Males have a dark grey node in the centre of the forewing.
Subspecies[]
Listed alphabetically:[1]
- O. b. arasaguna Austaut, 1911 – eastern Sayan, Transbaikalia?
- O. b. bore – Arctic Europe, Arctic Siberia
- O. b. edwardsi dos Passos, 1949 – southern Alberta, southern British Columbia, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado
- O. b. fordi dos Passos, 1949 – south western Alaska
- O. b. gaspeensis dos Passos, 1949 – southern Quebec
- O. b. hanburyi Watkins, 1928 – Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, northern Manitoba
- O. b. mckinleyensis dos Passos, 1949 – Alaska
- O. b. pansa Christoph, 1893 – Yakutia, Magadan
- ?O. b. patrushevae Korshunov, 1985 - Siberian tundra
- O. b. taygete Geyer, [1830] – Labrador, northern Quebec – white-veined Arctic
Similar species[]
- Melissa Arctic (O. mellisa)
- Polixenes Arctic (O. polixenes)[2]
Range and habitat[]
Occurs from Lapland and northern Russia and across Arctic Canada from Labrador to British Columbia; also found in the Gaspe Peninsula, western Alberta and the US Rocky Mountain states.[2] Its habitats include grassy alpine slopes, tundra, taiga, and subarctic bogs.[3]
Larval foods[]
Sedges (e.g., Carex misandra) and oviposition has been observed on dead leaves of grasses (, Festuca brachyphylla, and Festuca vivipara).[2]
Adult foods[]
References[]
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- ^ a b c "Oeneis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ a b c d Oeneis bore, Butterflies of Canada
- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- Butterflies of North America
- Butterflies of Asia
- Oeneis
- Butterflies described in 1792