Melitaea asteria (Freyer, 1828)
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 asteria
Species name(s)
Melitaea asteria (Freyer, 1828) = Mellicta asteria (Freyer, 1828). [9, 10]
Little Fritillary.
urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8595
Expansion
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Austria, Italy, Switzerland. [1].
- Austria, Italy (mainland), Switzerland. [10].
Larva food plants / other food objects
Subspecies of Melitaea asteria
- Mellicta asteria mevania Fruhstorfer, 1910. [187]
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
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
- [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
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