Oeneis melissa (Fabricius, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Satyrinae → tribe Satyrini → subtribe Satyrina → genus Oeneis → subgenus Oeneis → species Oeneis melissa

Species name(s)

Oeneis (Oeneis) melissa (Fabricius, 1775) = Papilio melissa Fabricius, 1775. [9, 10]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#15. Severo-Uralsky; #18. Nizhneobsky; #21. Severo-Yeniseisky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #29. Zapadno-Yakutsky; #30. Vostochno-Yakutsky; #32. Chukotsky; #33. Severo-Okhotomorsky; #34. Kamchatsky; #35. Sredne-Okhotsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

USSR - the European part. [1].
Russia. [10].
Regions of Russia: Eastern Yakutia, Western Yakutia, Kamchatka, Nizhne-Amur, Nizhneobsky, Pribaikalskiy, North Yenisei North Okhotsk, North Urals, Mid-Amur, Average Okhotsk, Chukotka. [3].

Subspecies of Oeneis melissa

Oeneis melissa also (Boisduval, [1833]). [9]
O. m. assimilis Butler, 1868. [9]
O. m. atlinensis C. Guppy and J. Shepard, 2001. [186]
O. m. beanii Elwes, 1893. [9]
O. m. daizetsuzana Matsumura, 1926. [9]
O. m. gibsoni Holland, 1931. [9]
O. m. karae Kusnezov, 1925. [9]
O. m. lucilla Barnes & McDunnough, 1918. [9]
O. m. melissa. [9]
O. m. orientalis Kurentzov, 1970. [9]
O. m. semidea (Say, 1828). [9]
O. m. semplei Holland, 1931. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Aleks Brown.

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
[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)
[186] Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database, http://www.itis.gov