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Melitaea arduinna (Esper, 1783)

Самец и самка Melitaea arduinna

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 arduinna

Species name(s)

Melitaea arduinna (Esper, 1783) = Papilio arduinna Esper, 1783 = Melitaea evanescens Staudinger 1886 = Melitaea fulminans Staudinger 1886 = Melitaea rhodopensis Freyer 1836 = Melitaea uralensis Eversmann 1851. [9, 10, 187]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8594

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky*; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky.

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

Имаго Melitaea arduinna

Detailed information with references

Distribution

  • Bulgaria, Greece, the Soviet Union - the European part of Yugoslavia. [1].
  • Bulgaria, Greece (mainland), Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Ukraine. [10].
  • Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, Prealtay, Mid-Volzhsky, Mid-Ural (?), South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

  • Centaurea. [28].

Subspecies of Melitaea arduinna

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, Alexander Belousov.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

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