Melitaea cinxia (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Melitaeinae → tribe Melitaeini → subtribe Melitaeina → genus Melitaea → species Melitaea cinxia

Species name(s)

Melitaea cinxia (Linnaeus, 1758) = Papilio cinxia Linnaeus, 1758 = Papilio pilodellae Rottemburg, 1775 = Papilio pilosella Rottemburg, 1775 = Papilio delia Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = Papilio abacus Rezius, 1783 = horvathi Abafi-Aigner, 1906 = kasyi Gross & Ebert, 1975 = Melitaea amardea Grum-Grshimailo 1895 = Melitaea arelatia Fruhstorfer 1910 = Melitaea australis Verity 1916 = Melitaea carpentana Verity 1929 = Melitaea castiliana Turati 1921 = Melitaea delia Denis & Schiffermüller 1775 = Melitaea deva Hemming 1934 = Melitaea narbonensis Fruhstorfer 1917 = Melitaea phoebe Godart 1821 = Melitaea pilosellae Rottemburg 1776 = Melitaea sicula Ragusa 1919 = Melitaea trivia Schrank 1801 = Melitaea tschujaca Seitz 1908. [9, 10, 187]

Glanville Fritillary.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 4.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #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; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #31. Yuzhno-Yakutsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #40. Primorsky.

Forewing length

15—20 mm.

Primary colors

Orange, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Larva lifespan

 					January 					February 					March 					April 					May 					June 					July 					August 					September 					October 					November 					December 			

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part of Turkey - European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands,Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, North Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Lower Volga, Prealtay , of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy,Seaside, Mid-Amur, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
Areal Melitaea cinxia - all of Europe, at an altitude of 2000 m. [5].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

The length of the front wing from 1.5 to 2 cm. The dark pattern on the top side of wings sometimes blurs, underside of front wings orange-yellow, off-white closer to the top of the wing, almost without pattern. [5].

General info about Imago

Places volley - edge of the forest, mixed grass meadows. [5].

Imago lifespan

Checkered tsinksii fly from late May to early July. [5].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Plantago, Centaurea, Veronica. [28].
Plantain lancet. [5].

Larva lifespan

The caterpillars are active from July to May, winter. [5].

Overwintering stage

Caterpillar. [5].

Subspecies of Melitaea cinxia

Melitaea cinxia amardea Grum-Grshimailo, 1895. [9]
M. c. atlantis Le Cerf, 1928. [9]
M. c. austrobscura Verity, 1950. [187]
M. c. balcanensis Eisner, 1942. [187]
M. c. bifasciata Hartig, 1924. [187]
M. c. brenthis Reuss, 1921. [187]
M. c. burri de Lattin, 1950. [187]
M. c. cinxia. [9]
M. c. clarissa Staudinger, 1901. [9]
M. c. diniensis Wheeler, 1903. [187]
M. c. eridanea Rocci, 1940. [187]
M. c. gergovia Fruhstorfer, 1918. [187]
M. c. heynei Rühl, 1895. [9]
M. c. impunctata Osthelder, 1925. [187]
M. c. karavajevi Obraztsov, 1936. [9]
M. c. oasis Huang & Murayama. [9]
M. c. ocelliformis Reuss, 1921. [187]
M. c. phaira Fruhstorfer, 1918. [187]
M. c. pseudoclarisa de Sagarra, 1930. [187]
M. c. pyrenemontana Rütimeyer, 1942. [187]
M. c. sacaria Fruhstorfer, 1917. [187]
M. c. sacarina Fruhstorfer, 1917. [9]
M. c. semijubilaris Langer, 1956. [187]
M. c. subtusmarcata Reuss, 1921. [187]
M. c. terracina Fruhstorfer, 1917. [187]
M. c. transversa Reuss, 1921. [187]
M. c. tschujaca Seitz, 1908. [9]
M. c. winbladi Bryk, 1950. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Viktor Kolesnikov, Jan van Holten.

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
[5] Райххолф-Рим Х. Бабочки. М.: Астрель, 2002
[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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org