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Oeneis bore

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Oeneis

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Similar
  
Arctic ringlet, Boloria polaris, Euphydryas iduna, Oeneis norna, Boloria improba

The white-veined arctic or arctic grayling (Oeneis bore) is a butterfly, a species of Satyrinae that occurs in North America and Asia.

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Description

The wingspan is 37 to 49 mm. 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.

  • O. b. arasaguna Austaut, 1911 – E.Sayan, Transbaikalia?
  • O. b. bore – Arctic Europe, Arctic Siberia
  • O. b. edwardsi dos Passos, 1949 – S.Alberta, S.British Columbia, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado
  • O. b. fordi dos Passos, 1949 – SW.Alaska
  • O. b. gaspeensis dos Passos, 1949 – S.Quebec
  • O. b. hanburyi Watkins, 1928 – Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, N.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, N.Quebec White-veined Arctic

    • Similar species

  • Melissa Arctic (O. mellisa)
  • Polixenes Arctic (O. polixenes)

    • 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.

    Larval foods

    Sedges (e.g., Carex misandra) and oviposition has been observed on dead leaves of grasses (Festuca mibra, Festuca brachyphylla, and Festuca vivipara)

    Adult foods

  • Nectar

    • References

    Oeneis bore Wikipedia
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