Melitaea aurelia (Nickerl, 1850)

Имаго Melitaea aurelia

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 aurelia

Species name(s)

Melitaea aurelia (Nickerl, 1850) = Mellicta aurelia (Nickerl, 1850) = Papilio athalia minor Esper, 1784 = Papilio parthenie Borkhausen, 1788. [9, 10]

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny*; #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.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Primary colors

Orange, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

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Самец и самка Melitaea aurelia

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, France ( mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European North-East (?), The European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Lower Volga, Mid-Volzhsky, Average -Uralsky, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Plantago lanceolata. [28].

Subspecies of Melitaea aurelia

Mellicta aurelia albimacula (Wojtusiak & Niesolowski, 1946). [9]
M. a. aurelia. [9]
M. a. aurelianigrobscura Verity, 1931. [187]
M. a. carsicola Verity, 1932. [187]
M. a. ciscaucasica Rjabov, 1926. [9]
M. a. dictynnoides Hormuzaki, 1898. [187]
M. a. distans (Higgins, 1955). [9]
M. a. imitatrix Verity, 1932. [187]
M. a. ligustica Rocci, 1932. [187]
M. a. luceria Fruhstorfer, 1917. [187]
M. a. mendrisiota Fruhstorfer, 1923. [187]
M. a. micromelanica Verity, 1935. [187]
M. a. mussinae Costantini, 1916. [187]
M. a. petricola Nekrutenko, 1978. [187]
M. a. poenina Verity, 1931. [187]
M. a. pseudorhaetica Kiefer, 1918. [187]
M. a. rhaetica Frey, 1880. [187]
M. a. valsunga Fruhstorfer, 1923. [187]
M. a. verbanica Rocci, 1932. [187]
M. a. vividocolore Verity, 1931. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Sazykin, Evgeny Komarov.

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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org