Melitaea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Nymphalinae
Tribus: Melitaeini
Subtribus: Melitaeina
Genus: Melitaea
Species: M. abyssinica –M. acentria –M. acraeina –M. aetherie –M. agar –M. ala –M. alraschid –M. ambrisia –M. amoenula –M. arcesia –M. arduinna –M. asteria –M. asteroida –M. athalia –M. athene –M. avinovi –M. balba –M. beltona –M. cassandra –M. casta –M. chitralensis –M. chuana –M. cinxia –M. collina –M. consulis –M. danieli –M. deserticola –M. devyatkini –M. diamina –M. didyma –M. didymina –M. didymoides –M. eberti –M. elisabethae –M. enarea –M. enoch –M. fergana –M. gabrielae –M. gina –M. higginsi –M. infernalis –M. interrupta –M. jitka – M. klili – M. kotshubeji –M. kuchi –M. kunlunensis –M. latonigena –M. leechi –M. ludmilla –M. lunulata –M. meherparvari –M. minerva –M. mixta –M. nadezhdae –M. ninae –M. oorschoti –M. ornata –M. pallas – M. pashtuni – M. pavlitzkajana –M. permuta –M. persea –M. phoebe –M. protomedia –M. pseudoala –M. pseudornata –M. punica –M. romanovi –M. sarvistana –M. saxatilis –M. scotosia –M. sebastiani –M. shandura –M. solona –M. sultanensis –M. sutschana –M. syriaca –M. tangigharuensis –M. telona –M. timandra –M. trivia –M. turanica – M. tzinensis –M. varia –M. zagrosi

Name

Melitaea Fabricius.

Typus: Melitaea cinxia Linnaeus, 1758: 480.

Synonyms

• Melitaea Fabricius, 1807: 284.
• Melilaea (sic) Fabricius; Hemming, 1967: 286. Mis-spelling.

References

Primary references

• Fabricius, J.C. 1807. In Illiger, J. K. W. Magazin für Insektenkunde 6: 279–289. BHL. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Achtelik, G., (1999): Vier neue Arten aus der "Melitaea sultanensis-Gruppe" (Staudinger, 1886) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) – Atalanta 30: 63 - 86. Reference page. 
• Benyamini, D. 2023. Melitaea telona complex of species (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Nymphalinae: Melitaenini) in the Levant and description of a new species. Phegea 51(1/2): 83–91. Reference page. 
• Carbonell, F., 2007: Melitaea meherparvari n. sp. du sud-ouest de l'Iran (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, 112(3): 334.Reference page. 
• Charmeux, J.-F. 2021. Melitaea pahtuni sp. nova du Pakistan (Chitral) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Revue des Lépidoptéristes de France 30(79): 68-71. Reference page. 
• Churkin, S.V., Kolesnichenko, K.A. & Tuzov, V.K. 2000. Revision of the Melitaea asteroida species-group (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) with new taxa descriptions. Helios 1: 61–87. Reference page. 
• Eckweiler, W. 2008. Melitaea oorschoti sp. n., eine neue Art der Gattung Melitaea Fabricius, 1807 aus Mittelasien (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo NF 28(3-4): 109–110. Full article zobodat (PDF). Reference page. 
• Eckweiler, W. 2008. Melitaea tangigharuensis de Freina, 1980 in Iran (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo NF 29(1-2): 93–96. Reference page. 
• Hemming, A.F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1–509. Reference page. 
• Huang, R.-X. & Murayama, S.-i. 1992. Butterflies of Xinjiang Province, China. Tyô to Ga 43(1): 1–22. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Kolesnichenko, K.A. 2018. A New Melitaea Species from the didyma-Group from Southern Mongolia, with Notes on the Intraspecific Structure of M. didymoides Eversmann, 1847 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Entomological Review 98(9): 1329-1341. (Original Russian Text published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2018, 97(12): 1485–1497). Reference page. 
• Kolesnichenko, K.A., Churkin, S.V. & Berdiev, R.K. 2011. A review of the East Palaearctic taxa of the Melitaea didyma (Esper, [1779])-group. Part II. Neue entomologische nachrichten 67: 257–278. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Kolesnichenko, K.A., Kotlobay, A.A. 2022. Review of the fritillary species systematically close to Melitaea lutko Evans, 1932 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) with analysis of their geographic distribution and interrelations with host plants. European Journal of Taxonomy. 830(1): 1–60. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.830.1865 Reference page.  [as Melitaea p. 5]
• Korb, S.K., 2010: A new subspecies of Melitaea kotschubeji Sheljuzhko, 1929 from Suusamyr valley in Kyrghyzstan (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Eversmannia 21-22: 28–29.
• Kolesnichenko, K.A. & Kotlobay, A.A. 2020. Early Stages and Biology of Melitaea timandra Coutsis et Oorschot, 2014 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) Under the Conditions of Kuh-e-Binalud Mountain (Iran). Zootaxa 4729(4): 566–574. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.4.7 Reference page. 
• Korb, S.K. & Bolshakov, L.V. 2011. A catalogue of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoformes) of the former USSR. Second edition, reformatted and updated. Eversmannia, Supplement 2. Full article (PDF) in Russian. Reference page. 
• Kudrna, O & Z. Mracek, 1994: A new species of the genus Melitaea Fabricius, 1807, from Tibet (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Entomologist's Gazette 45: 251–253.
• Kuznetsov, G.V., 2011: Some data about biology Melitaea telona Fruhstorfer, 1908 and Melitaea robertsi uvarovi Gorbunov, 1995 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) on Volgograd region. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin, 7 (1): 83–84. Abstract: [1]
• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. 
• Lukhtanov, V.A. 1999. Neue taxa und synonyma zentralasiatischer Tagfalter (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Atalanta 30(1/4): 135–150. PDF. Reference page. 
• Lukhtanov, V.A. 2017. A new species of Melitaea from Israel, with notes on taxonomy, cytogenetics, phylogeography and interspecific hybridization in the Melitaea persea complex (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Comparative cytogenetics 11(2): 325–327. DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v11i2.12370 . Reference page. 
• Russell, P.J.C. & Bartolozzi, L. 2019. A revisit to the Melitaea taxon nigrogygia Verity, 1939 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and designation of a Lectotype. Zootaxa 4603(3): 592–596. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4603.3.13 Reference page. 
• Russell, P.J.C. & Lukhtanov, V.A. 2018. To which species should the name heynei Rühl, [1893] (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) be referred? Zootaxa 4531(1): 81–94. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4531.1.3 Reference page. 
• Russell, P.J.C., Lukhtanov, V.A. & Tennent, W.J. 2022. Reassessment of the status of some European and Asian Melitaea taxa described as subspecies of Melitaea phoebe ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775), with designations of lectotypes where appropriate (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Zootaxa 5141(1): 25–38. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5141.1.2. . Reference page. 
• Russell, P.J.C. & Tennent, W.J. 2023. Notes on the Melitaea ornata Christoph, 1893, complex in the Levant (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) including new synonymy and observations on lectotype designations for Melitaea phoebe dorae Graves, 1925. Zootaxa 5353(3): 276–284. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.3.5. Reference page. 
• Tóth, J.P., Bereczki, J., Varga, Z., Rota, J., Sramkó, G. & Wahlberg, N. 2014. Relationships within the Melitaea phoebe species group (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): new insights from molecular and morphometric information. Systematic Entomology 39(4): 749–757. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12083 Reference page. 
• Weiss, D. & Major, V. 2000. A new species of the genus Melitaea (Fabricius, 1807) from Iran (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Atalanta 31(1-2): 123-128. full article Zobodat (PDF). Reference page. 
• Wyatt, C.W., 1961: Additions to the Ropalocera of Afghanistan with descriptions of new species and subspecies. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 15 (1): 1–18. Full article: [2]

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