Shepherd's fritillary (Boloria pales) The Apennine form  - Insects, Spiders and other Animals
Shepherd's fritillary (Boloria pales) The Apennine form of a variable species with a number of different races. It is a butterfly of stony alpine and subalpine meadows often above the treeline between 2000 and 2400m. Sibillini, Umbria, Italy July 2021


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