Melitaea diamina (Lang, 1789)

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 diamina

Species name(s)

Melitaea diamina (Lang, 1789) = Melitaea dictynna = Papilio diamina Lang, 1789 = Melitaea dictynna alpestris Fruhstorfer, 1917 = Mellicta dictynna = Melitaea aurelita Fruhstorfer 1923 = Melitaea briantea Turati 1921 = Melitaea corythalia Hübner 1793 = Melitaea erycinides Staudinger 1892 = Melitaea hebe Borkhausen 1793 = Melitaea melicerta Pfutzner 1873 = Melitaea orthia Hübner 1816 = Melitaea orientalpestris Verity 1931 = Melitaea protomedia Ménétriès, 1859 = Melitaea wheeleri Chapman 1910 = Melitaea ligata Caruel 1944. [9, 10, 85, 187]

False-heath Fritillary.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 4.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #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; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #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

16—23 mm.

Primary colors

Orange, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Flight time

January

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Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Melitaea dictynna. [85].

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Germany, Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway (mainland) Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, 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-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhne-Amur, Prealtay,Of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Seaside, Mid-Amur, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian, South Ural, South Yakutia. [3].
Grasslands of various types. [185].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Length of front wing: 16-23 mm. [185].
Difference from Melitaea athalia: two full rows of spots on the hindwings, not three. [85].

Imago lifespan

June July [185].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Valeriana, Melampyrum. [28].
Plantain (Plantago), Veronica (Veronica) [185].

Subspecies of Melitaea diamina

Melitaea diamina albidosplendida Eisner, 1942. [187]
M. d. alpestris Fruhstorfer, 1917. [187]
M. d. autumnalis Turati, 1921. [187]
M. d. badukensis Alberti, 1969. [187]
M. d. badukensis Alberti, 1969. [9]
M. d. bosniensis Eisner, 1942. [187]
M. d. candidata Stauder, 1922. [187]
M. d. codinai Sagarra, 1932. [9]
M. d. composita Verity, 1935. [187]
M. d. diamina. [9]
M. d. erycina (Lederer, 1853). [9]
M. d. erycinides Staudinger, 1892. [9]
M. d. fixseni Bryk, 1946. [187]
M. d. hebe (Borkhausen, 1793). [9]
M. d. isarcica Verity, 1931. [187]
M. d. lebedevi Obraztsov, 1936. [187]
M. d. magnaclara Verity, 1931. [187]
M. d. magnaobscura Verity, 1931. [187]
M. d. nigrovulturis Hartig, 1968. [187]
M. d. postwheeleri Verity, 1930. [187]
M. d. praxilla Fruhstorfer, 1917. [187]
M. d. pyrenaealpestris Verity, 1931. [187]
M. d. semilearchus Ebert, 1926. [187]
M. d. trifasciata Gussich, 1917. [187]
M. d. variegata Turati, 1921. [187]
M. d. vernetensis Rondou, 1902. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Alexsandr Martukov.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

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
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[185] Берлов О. Бабочки Байкала. Атлас-определитель.- Электронный ресурс 2001-2006: http://babochki.narod.ru
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org