Melanitis leda Linnaeus, 1758
Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Satyrinae → tribe Melanitini → genus Melanitis → species Melanitis leda
Species name(s)
Melanitis leda Linnaeus, 1758 = Papilio leda Linnaeus, 1758 = Papilio solandra Fabricius, 1775 = taitensis (Felder, 1862) = bernardi = Melanitis leda solandra = Cyllo helena Plötz, 1880 = Cyllo helena Westwood, [1851 = Cyllo obsoleta Felder, 1867. [9, 85, 187]
Common Evening Brown.
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Expansion
This species marks on the maps: 3.
Zoogeographical regions
Ethiopic, Indo-Malayan.
Primary colors
Orange, Brown/Gray/Black.
Detailed information with references
Larva food plants / other food objects
- Apluda mutica, Oryza sativa, Saccarum officnarum and Stenotaphrum secundatum. [9].
Subspecies of Melanitis leda
- Melanitis leda africana Fruhstorfer, 1908. [9]
- M. l. angulata Joicey & Noakes, 1915. [9]
- M. l. bankia (Fabricius, 1775). [9]
- M. l. bouruana Holland, 1900. [9]
- M. l. celebicola Martin, 1929. [9]
- M. l. desperata Fruhstorfer, 1908. [9]
- M. l. destitans Fruhstorfer, 1908. [9]
- M. l. dominans Fruhstorfer, 1908. [9]
- M. l. ismene (Cramer, [1775]). [9]
- M. l. kiriwinae Fruhstorfer, 1908. [9]
- M. l. leda. [9]
- M. l. levuna Fruhstorfer, 1908. [9]
- M. l. moluccarum Fruhstorfer, 1908. [9]
- M. l. offaka Fruhstorfer, 1908. [9]
- M. l. palliata Fruhstorfer, 1908. [9]
- M. l. saipanensis Nakamura, 1929. [187]
- M. l. salomonis Fruhstorfer, 1908. [9]
- M. l. simessa Fruhstorfer, 1911. [9]
- M. l. van Eecke, 1933. [187]
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Dmitriy Pozhogin, Anna Gerasimova. Text data: Peter Khramov.
The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.
References
- [9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
- [85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
- [187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
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