Uncompahgre Fritillary

Taxobox
name = Uncompahgre Fritillary Butterfly


status = VU | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Nymphalidae
genus = "Boloria"
species = "B. acrocnema"
binomial = "Boloria acrocnema"
binomial_authority = Gall & Sperling, 1980
synonyms = The Uncompahgre Fritillary Butterfly ("Boloria acrocnema") is a species of butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is endemic to the United States. . It is the last butterfly to be discovered in North America and was found by two Stanford students working out of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. It was thought to be on the edge of extinction, but a number of additional populations have been found and the early monitoring programs that detected small numbers were found to be inadequate. The population is still consider to be endangered.

ource

* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/2863/all Boloria acrocnema] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 31 July 2007.