Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae > Clossiana > Clossiana astarte

Clossiana astarte (Astarte Fritillary)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Astarte fritillary (Boloria astarte) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found from northwestern North America to northeastern Siberia. It is found as far south as Montana and Washington. The wingspan is 42–51 mm. The butterfly flies from mid-June to mid-August. The larvae feed on spotted saxifrage (Saxifraga bronchialis).
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Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.772 inches (.045 m)

Prey / Diet

Micranthes nelsoniana (Heartleaf saxifrage)[2]
Micranthes nelsoniana nelsoniana (heartleaf saxifrage)[3]
Saxifraga bronchialis (spotted saxifrage)[3]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0