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Melitaea Fabricius 1807

  • 1. Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory I / 12, Moscow 119991, Russia.

Description

Genus Melitaea Fabricius, 1807

Fig. 1–30, Tables 1–6

Our study indicates the existence of four independent species within the complex under consideration: M. lutko, M. mimetica, M. shahvarica sp. nov., and M. timandra. The latter species is well differentiated into two subspecies that are isolated both geographically and ecologically.

Notes

Published as part of Kolesnichenko, Kirill A. & Kotlobay, Anatoly A., 2022, Review of the fritillary species systematically close to Melitaea lutko Evans, 1932 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) with analysis of their geographic distribution and interrelations with host plants, pp. 1-60 in European Journal of Taxonomy 830 (1) on page 5, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.830.1865, http://zenodo.org/record/6839847

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Fabricius
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nymphalidae
Genus
Melitaea
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Melitaea Fabricius, 1807 sec. Kolesnichenko & Kotlobay, 2022