Melanargia larissa (Geyer, 1828)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Satyrinae → tribe Melanargiini → genus Melanargia → species Melanargia larissa

Species name(s)

Melanargia larissa (Geyer, 1828) = Papilio larissa Geyer, [1828] = Melanargia typhla Schawerda 1921 = Melanargia flavescens Pionneau 1937. [9, 10, 187]

Balkan Marbled White.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey - The European part of Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece (mainland), Macedonia, North Aegean, Turkey (European part), Croatia, Cycladic, Yugoslavia. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Gramineae. [28].

Subspecies of Melanargia larissa

Melanargia larissa astanda (Boisduval, 1848). [9]
M. l. coxii Haig-Thomas, 1931. [187]
M. l. freyeri Fruhstorfer, 1917. [9]
M. l. hertina Staudinger, 1901. [9]
M. l. karabagi Koçak, 1976. [187]
M. l. lesbina Wagener, 1976. [187]
M. l. wageneri Koçak, 1977. [187]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Paolo Mazzei.

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