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Fritillary

Boloria sp

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Field Notes

Description:

Always have hard time when it come to identifying fritillaries - here is an unknown fritillary (I thought of Brenthis dafne... ) , medium sized butterfly - about 4-4.5 cm in wingspan.

Habitat:

Seen on edges of marshy area in Geneva lake valley; at the feet of Jura range.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Gaia80
To me it looks like a mix between Boloria selene and B. euphrosyne, Brenthis daphne has less similarities as far as I can see, https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/54068-Boloria-selene, https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/132997-Boloria-euphrosyne,

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PublishedAugust 14, 2019

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