Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary (Boloria selene)

Photo © Chris van Swaay

Family	Nymphalidae
Subfamily	Heliconiinae
Genus	Boloria
Species	selene
Authority	([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
English Name	Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

European Red List 2010	Least Concern (LC)
EU 27 Red List 2010	Least Concern (LC)
European Red List 2025	Least Concern (LC)
EU 27 Red List 2025	Least Concern (LC)
Habitats Directive
Bern Convention
CITES

Description

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary The Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary, is found in damp to wet meadows or on lightly-grazed pastures. It is also found on raised bogs and in swampy habitats. Populations may occur in small, sheltered locations, but also in an open landscape. The butterflies can often be seen taking nectar, seeming to prefer thistles of various kinds. The eggs are laid on violets (Viola spp.). When half-grown, the caterpillars hibernate in a rolled-up leaf of the foodplant. They pupate low down on a stalk in the litter layer. At high altitudes and in the north, the Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary is single-brooded, but has two generations a year elsewhere.

Distribution

Andorra / Austria / Belarus / Belgium / Belgium: Flanders (Regionally Extinct) / Belgium: Wallonia / Bosnia and Herzegovina / Bulgaria / Croatia / Czechia / Denmark / Estonia / Finland / France / France: Mainland / Germany / Greece / Greece: Mainland / Hungary / Italy / Italy: Mainland / Latvia / Liechtenstein / Lithuania / Luxembourg / Netherlands / Norway / Poland / Portugal / Portugal: Mainland / Romania / European Russia / Serbia / Serbia: Serbia / Slovakia / Slovenia / Spain / Spain: Mainland / Sweden / Switzerland / Ukraine / United Kingdom / United Kingdom: Great Britain /

Larval Foodplants