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White-veined Arctic
Oeneis bore
Oeneis bore, the white-veined Arctic or Arctic grayling, is a butterfly, a species of Satyrinae that occurs in North America and Asia.
From the article Oeneis bore on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
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.
Range & 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).
Wikipedia: “Range and habitat”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 226264.