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FIGURES 3–12 in Investigations into the Melitaea ornata species complex in the Levant: M. telona and the newly erected species Melitaea klili Benyamini, 2021 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

  • 1. Oakmeadow, Wessex Avenue, East Wittering, West Sussex PO20 8NP, U.K.
  • 2. 53, Garland square, Tangmere, West Sussex PO20 2JF, U.K.
  • 3. Department of Karyosystematics, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia

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FIGURES 3–12. Preimaginal and imaginal stages of M. telona and the taxon klili (= M. telona). Figures 3 & 4. Egg batches from Beit Jan, Israel (3), ex female Nahal Shezor, Israel (4); figs 5 & 6: final instar larvae, ex ovum Beit Jan (5), ex larva Nahal Shezor (6); figs 7 & 8: pupae, ex ovum Beit Jan (7), ex larva Nahal Shezor (8); figs 9–12: adult butterflies (left hand side—upperside, right hand side—underside), fig 9: M. telona ♁ ex ovum Beit Jan; fig. 10: taxon klili ♁ ex larva Nahal Shezor; fig. 11: M. telona ♀; fig. 12: taxon klili ♀; data as for figs 9 & 10 respectively.

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Published as part of Russell, Peter J. C., Pateman, James E., Gagarina, Anastasia V. & Lukhtanov, Vladimir A., 2023, Investigations into the Melitaea ornata species complex in the Levant: M. telona and the newly erected species Melitaea klili Benyamini, 2021 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), pp. 187-195 in Zootaxa 5285 (1) on page 192, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5285.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/7935997

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