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(Redirected from Oeneis taygete) Species of butterfly

Oeneis bore
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Oeneis
Species group: Oeneis (bore)
Species: O. bore
Binomial name
Oeneis bore
(Schneider, 1792)
Subspecies

See text

Synonyms
  • Papilio bore Schneider, 1792
  • Oeneis norna bore Hübner, 1825
  • Oeneis verdanda Staudinger, 1898
  • Oeneis semidea var. pansa Christoph, 1893
  • Oeneis arasaguna Austaut, 1911
  • Oeneis mckinleyensis dos Passos, 1949
  • Oeneis taygete Geyer,
  • Oeneis bootes Boisduval, 1832
  • Oeneis taygete gaspeensis dos Passos, 1949
  • Oeneis taygete fordi dos Passos, 1949
  • Oeneis taygete edwardsi dos Passos, 1949
  • Oeneis patrushevae Korshunov, 1985

Oeneis bore, the white-veined Arctic or Arctic grayling, is a butterfly, a species of Satyrinae that occurs in North America and Asia.

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 – 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, – Labrador, northern Quebec – white-veined Arctic

Similar species

Range and habitat

Occurs from Lapland and northern Russia and across Arctic Canada from Labrador to British Columbia; also found in the Gaspé Peninsula, western Alberta and the US Rocky Mountain states. Its habitats include grassy alpine slopes, tundra, taiga, and subarctic bogs.

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

References

  1. "European Red List of Butterflies" (PDF). p. 38.
  2. ^ "Oeneis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. ^ Oeneis bore, Butterflies of Canada
  4. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
Taxon identifiers
Oeneis bore
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