Melitaea phoebe

Melitaea phoebe ♂

Melitaea phoebe ♀

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: Melitaea phoebe
Subspecies: M. p. changaica – M. p. enoch – M. p. mandarina – M. p. occitanica – M. p. ottonis – M. p. phoebe – M. p. saturata – M. p. streltzovi – M. p. tungana – M. p. tungusa – M. p. wagneri

Name

Melitaea phoebe (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)

Synonyms

• Papilio phoebe Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
• Papilio phoebe Goeze, [1779]
• Papilio paedotrophos Bergsträsser, 1780
• Papilio corythallia Esper, 1781
• Papilio tremulae Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783
• Melitaea phoebe ab. tatara Krulikovsky, 1890
• Melitaea phoebe aethereaeformis Verity, 1919
• Melitaea phoebe alternans Seitz, 1909
• Melitaea phoebe canellina Stauder, 1922
• Melitaea phoebe dorae Graves, 1925
• Melitaea phoebe gerinia Fruhstorfer, 1916
• Melitaea phoebe koios Fruhstorfer, 1908
• Melitaea phoebe minoa Fruhstorfer, 1917
• Melitaea phoebe ogygia Fruhstorfer, 1908
• Melitaea phoebe rovia Fruhstorfer, 1919
• Melitaea phoebe tusca Verity, 1919

References

• Denis, J.N.C.M. & Schiffermüller, I., 1775. Ankündung eines systematischen Werkes von den Schmetterlingen der Wienergegend. Vienna, Bernardi. 322pp, 2 pl. 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. 
• Russell, P.J.C. & Tennent, W.J. 2016. A synonymic list of names associated with western Palaearctic Melitaea phoebe (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) species group taxa (M. phoebe; M. punica Oberthür, 1876; M. ornata Christoph, 1893) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 39(1): 27–56. Reference page. 
• P.J.C. Russell, L. Bartolozzi, R.L. Hawkins, W.J. Tennent & T. Léger, 2020. Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe Denis & Schiffermüller,1775 and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología 48(191): 449–472. ResearchGate Reference page.