Melanargia russiae (Esper, 1783)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Satyrinae → tribe Melanargiini → genus Melanargia → species Melanargia russiae

Species name(s)

Melanargia russiae (Esper, 1783) = Papilio russiae Esper, 1783. [9, 10]

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 8.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky.

Primary colors

Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Sicily, the USSR - the European part of France, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Hungary, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Macedonia, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Sicily, Ukraine, France (mainland). [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Krasnoyarsk, Lower Volga, Prealtay, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Gramineae. [28].

Subspecies of Melanargia russiae

Melanargia russiae caucasiaca Nordmann, 1851. [9]
M. r. russiae. [9]
M. r. transcaspica Staudinger, 1901. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Oleg Seliverstov, Viktor Kolesnikov.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012