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Mellicta Billberg, 1820
Mellicta Billberg, 1820; Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb.: 77, TS: Papilio athalia Rottenburg
= Melitaea Fabricius, 1807; [Wahlberg]
Athaliaeformia Verity, 1950; Le Farfalle diurn. d'Italia 4: 89, 90, 157, TS: Papilio athalia Rottenburg
= Melitaea Fabricius, 1807; [Wahlberg]
Mellicta (Melitaeini) ; Higgins, 1981, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 43 (3): 165
Mellicta (Nymphalidae) ; [BRU2, 76]

fiMellicta athalia (Rottemburg, 1775)
EU, Russia, Temperate Asia, Japan. See [About maps] Ratamoverkkoperhonen Heath Fritillary Grobladsnätfjäril Ängsnätfjäril Wachtelweizen-Scheckenfalter Gemeiner Scheckenfalter Athalia Przeplatka atalia
Papilio athalia Rottemburg, 1775; Der Naturforscher 6: 5, TL: Umgebung Paris
Mellicta athalia mod. satyra Higgins, 1955; Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 106 (1): 41-42, pl. 1, f. 19, TL: Karlova, Bulgaria
Melitaea athalia [Wahlberg]
Melitaea athalia [Kimmo Silvonen]
Melitaea athalia [NORLEP]
Mellicta athalia [Mario Maier]
Mellicta athalia [Simon Coombes]
satyra ; Abadjiev, 2002, Neue Ent. Nachr. 23: 46
Mellicta athalia ; [BOW: pl. 3, f. 7-8]; [EBW]; [MRS, 585]; [BRU2: 79, pl. 48, f. 28-36]
Melitaea athalia ; [Otakar Kudrna]
[athalia-1u.jpg] 500x344 (~68Kb) upperside Luckett, Cornwall, UK 04/06/95, Photo © Simon Coombes [athalia-1v.jpg] 500x455 (~67Kb) underside Luckett, Cornwall, UK 04/06/95, Photo © Simon Coombes [athalia-2u.jpg] 500x688 (~34Kb) upperside Finland, Tampere, Hervanta, 6820:330, 13.7.1997, Photo © Tero Piirainen
[athalia-2ux.jpg] 800x594 (~57Kb) upperside Finland, Sipoo 670:40, 20.6.1980, Photo © Pertti Pakkanen [athalia-3mfv.jpg] 600x800 (~118Kb) underside male female A forest meadow in open asp/birch wood in the surroundings of Akademgorodok [Academy Town], Novosibirsk, West SIberia, Russia. 27th May 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin [athalia-4mfv.jpg] 512x768 (~44Kb) underside male female Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Ötisheim, 8° 49' E, 48° 58' N, altitude 310m, 27.06.1998, Photo © Karl Hofsäß
[athalia-5u.jpg] 800x600 (~97Kb) upperside Sweden, Ekebo, Julita, 30.6.2003, Photo © Leif Wahlberg [athalia-6u.jpg] 591x788 (~78Kb) upperside Sweden, Ekebo, Julita, 5.6.2004, Photo © Leif Wahlberg [athalia-6v.jpg] 557x742 (~69Kb) underside Sweden, Ekebo, Julita, 5.6.2004, Photo © Leif Wahlberg
[athalia-7.jpg] 1225x579 (~110Kb) Russia, Moscow area, 11.06.2007, Photo © D. Smirnov [athalia-8v.jpg] 794x531 (~111Kb) underside Russia, Moscow area, 13.6.2008, Photo © D. Smirnov [athalia-9u.jpg] 876x549 (~120Kb) upperside Russia, Moscow area, 14.7.2008, Photo © D. Smirnov
[athalia-9v.jpg] 970x558 (~104Kb) underside Russia, Moscow area, 14.7.2008, Photo © D. Smirnov [athalia-a1x.jpg] 650x734 (~75Kb) Lithuania: Dzukija, Marcinkonys-Zervynos, 15.7.2008 (and Zygaena viciae?), Photo © Harri Arkkio [athalia-a1y.jpg] 979x734 (~124Kb) Lithuania: Dzukija, Marcinkonys-Zervynos, 15.7.2008 (and Ochlodes sylvanus, Zygaena viciae?), Photo © Harri Arkkio

Larva on Melampyrum sylvaticum, Veronica chamaedrys [SPRK], Plantago spp., Melampyrum spp. [MRS]


EU, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, W.Siberia Melitaea athalia anatolica Wagner, 1929
Mellicta athalia athalia ; Higgins, 1981, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 43 (3): 165 (name); [BRU2, 79]
M. a. celadussa (Fruhstorfer, 1910)
Melitaea athalia celadussa Fruhstorfer, 1910
Melitaea pseudathalia Reverdin, 1921
Mellicta athalia celadussa ; Higgins, 1981, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 43 (3): 165 (name)
M. a. norvegica (Aurivillius, 1888)
Utsjoki
Melitaea athalia norvegica Aurivillius, 1888
Melitaea athalia scandinavica Staudinger, 1892
Melitaea athalia polaris Rygge, 1921
Melitaea athalia borealis Lindström, 1929
Melitaea athalia norvegica ; [BRU2, 79]
[norvegica-1uf.jpg] 575x676 (~56Kb) upperside female FINLAND: Li: Utsjoki, 775:50, 7.7.1997, Photo © Markku Savela [norvegica-1um.jpg] 500x753 (~56Kb) upperside male FINLAND: Li: Utsjoki, 775:50, 7.7.1997, Photo © Markku Savela

M. a. dictynnoides (Hormuzaki, 1898)
SW.Europe? Melitaea dictynnoides Hormuzaki, 1898; Dt. ent. Zeitschr. Lep. 1: 13
Melitaea diaminoides Verity, 1940; Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 89: 635
Mellicta athalia dictynnoides ; [BRU2, 79]
M. a. lucifuga (Fruhstorfer, 1917)
SE.Europe Melitaea lucifuga Fruhstorfer, 1917; Archiv Naturgesch. (A) 82 (2): 4
Mellicta athalia lucifuga ; [BRU2, 79]
M. a. reticulata Higgins, 1955
Altai Mellicta athalia reticulata Higgins, 1955; Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 106 (1): 21
Mellicta athalia reticulata ; [BRU2, 79]
M. a. baikalensis (Bremer, 1861)
S.Siberia - Amur? Melitaea baikalensis Bremer, 1861; Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., 3: 465, pl. 1, f. 6, TL: Baikal
Mellicta athalia baikalensis ; [BRU2, 79]
M. a. hyperborea Dubatolov, 1997
Magadan, Kamchatka Mellicta athalia hyperborea [SZMN]
Mellicta athalia hyperborea ; [BRU2, 79]

Mellicta nevadensis (Oberthür, 1904)
Melitaea athalia nevadensis Oberthür, 1904
Melitaea nevadensis ; [Otakar Kudrna]

Mellicta caucasogenita (Verity, 1930)
Caucasus, NE.Turkey. See [About maps] Melitaea caucasogenita Verity, 1930; Ent. Rec. J. Var. 42: 134 (repl. Melitaea caucasica Staudinger)
Melitaea caucasica Staudinger, 1871; in Staudinger & Wocke, Cat. Lepid. europ. Faunegeb.: 19 (preocc.)
Melitaea athalia caucasogenita ;
Mellicta caucasogenita ; [BRU2: 80, pl. 48, f. 25-27]

Mellicta ambigua (Ménétriés, 1859)
Korea. See [About maps] Melitaea athalia var. ambigua Ménétriés, 1859; in Schrenck, Reise Forschungen Amur-Lande 2 (1): 24, pl. 2, f. 4, TL: Djai [Blagoveshtshenk, Amur]
Melitaea ambigua [Wahlberg]
Mellicta athalia ambigua ; Higgins, 1981, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 43 (3): 165 (name); [MRS, 585]
Melitaea ambigua ;
Mellicta ambigua ; [BRU2: 80, pl. 49, f. 1-6]
Amur, N.Sakhalin? Melitaea athalia bathilda Fruhstorfer, 1919
?Melitaea ambigua sachalinensis Matsumura, 1925
Mellicta ambigua ambigua ; [BRU2, 81]; [BRU2, 81]
M. a. kenteana Seitz, [1909]
Altai, Sayan, Transbaikalia Melitaea ambigua sayanskalpina Verity, 1940
crassepicta (Verity, 1940)
Mellicta ambigua kenteana ; [Oleg Kosterin]; [BRU2, 81]
[kenteana-1mv.jpg] 400x533 (~40Kb) underside male An open pine forest on the hill just north of the Chita City, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 28th June 1996, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

M. a. niphona (Butler, 1878)
Ussuri, Japan
mandschurica Fixsen, 1887²
?Melitaea athalia nossis Fruhstorfer, 1919
sutschana Reverdin, 1922²
Melitaea niphona Butler, 1878
Mellicta ambigua niphona ; [BRU2, 81]

Mellicta deione (Geyer, 1832)
SWEU, NAF. See [About maps] Provençal Fritillary Deion
Melitaea deione Geyer, 1832; Samml. eur. Schmett. [1] : f. 947-950 (1827-1828), TL: S.Europe
Melitaea deione [Wahlberg]
Mellicta deione [Simon Coombes]
Mellicta deione ; [BOW: pl. 3, f. 11]; Higgins, 1981, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 43 (3): 165 (name)
Melitaea deione ; [Otakar Kudrna]

Larva on Linaria, Antirrhinum sempervirens [H&R]

M. d. berisalii (RÜhl, 1891)
Melitaea deione berisalii RÜhl, 1891
M. d. nitida (Oberthür, 1909)
W.Morocco (Rif Mts), W.Algeria (Tlemcen, Sebdou, etc.) Melitaea deione f. nitida Oberthür, 1909; Étud. Lépid. Comp. 3 : 254, TL: Tlemcen, Sebdou (Algeria)
Mellicta deione nitida ; [BMAT: 55, pl. 18, f. 9-17]
[nitida-1u.jpg] 600x435 (~43Kb) upperside Morocco, Djebel Lakraa, Rif, Photo © Michel Tarrier [nitida-2v.jpg] 600x435 (~36Kb) underside Morocco, Djebel Lakraa, Rif, Photo © Michel Tarrier


Mellicta parthenoides (Keferstein, 1851)
WEU. See [About maps] Meadow Fritillary Minerva
Melitaea parthenoides Keferstein, 1851; Stettin. Ent. Z. 12: 244
?parthenie (Godart, 1819)
Melitaea parthenoides [Wahlberg]
Melitaea parthenoides [Kimmo Silvonen]
Mellicta parthenoides [Mario Maier]
Mellicta parthenoides [Simon Coombes]
Mellicta parthenoides ; [BOW: pl. 3, f. 12]; Higgins, 1981, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 43 (3): 165 (name)
Melitaea parthenoides ; [Otakar Kudrna]

Larva on Plantago, Scabiosa, Melampyrum [BHR]


Mellicta aurelia (Nickerl, 1850)
W.France, S.Europe, Caucasus, N.Kazakhstan - E.Tian-Shan, SW.Siberia. See [About maps] Nickerl's Fritillary Ehrenpreis-Scheckenfalter Przeplatka aurelia
Melitaea aurelia Nickerl, 1850; Synops. Lep. Böhm: pl. 12, TL: Erlangen [Germany]
Papilio athalia minor Esper, 1784; Die Schmett. Th. I, Bd. 2 (9): 173, pl. 89 (preocc.)
Papilio parthenie Borkhausen, 1788; (preocc. Bergträsser, 1780)
Melitaea aurelia [Wahlberg]
Melitaea aurelia [Kimmo Silvonen]
Mellicta aurelia [Simon Coombes]
Mellicta aurelia ; [BOW: pl. 3, f. 9-10]; Higgins, 1981, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 43 (3): 165 (name); [BRU2: 76, pl. 47, f. 22-30]
Melitaea aurelia ; [Otakar Kudrna]
[aurelia-1l.jpg] 951x624 (~71Kb) larva Schwaegalp, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 6-91, Photo © S. Shuichi Haupt

Larva on Plantago, Veronica, Melampyrum [H&R], (+) Chrysanthemum, Digitalis [BOW]


W.France, S.Europe - SW.Siberia, Crimea Melitaea aurelia aurelia
petricola Nekrutenko, 1978
Melitaea aurelia aurelia ; [BRU2, 76]
M. a. albimacula (Wojtusiak & Niesolowski, 1946)
Caucaus Major Melitaea aurelia albimacula Wojtusiak & Niesolowski, 1946; Acta Mus. Hist. nat. Acad. polon., Crakow, 6: 55
Mellicta aurelia albimacula ; [BRU2, 76]
M. a. ciscaucasica Rjabov, 1926
N.Caucasus Mellicta aurelia ciscaucasica ; [BRU2, 76]
M. a. distans (Higgins, 1955)
E.Tien-Shan Melitaea aurelia distans Higgins, 1955
Mellicta aurelia distans ; [BRU2, 76]

Mellicta britomartis (Assmann, 1847)
NE.China. See [About maps] Assmann's Fritillary Veronikanätfjäril Przeplatka britomartis
Melitaea britomartis Assmann, 1847; Ent. Z. Breslau Lepid. (1) 1: 2, TL: Breslau [Wroclaw, Poland]
Melitaea britomartis [Wahlberg]
Melitaea britomartis [Kimmo Silvonen]
Mellicta britomartis [Mario Maier]
Mellicta britomartis [Simon Coombes]
Mellicta britomartis ; Higgins, 1981, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 43 (3): 165 (name); [BRU2: 78, pl. 48, f. 13-18]
Melitaea britomartis ; [Otakar Kudrna]

Larva on Plantago, Veronica [H&R]

CEU - N.Kazakhstan - Altai Melitaea veronicae Dorfmeister, 1853
Melitaea aurelia marussia Fruhstorfer, 1919
Mellicta britomartis britomartis ; [BRU2, 78]
M. b. aureliaeformis (Verity, 1916)
Melitaea aureliaeformis Verity, 1916; Bull. Soc. ent. ital. 48: 186
Melitaea melathalia Rocci, 1930
Melitaea melathalia taurinorum Rocci, 1932
M. b. amurensis (Staudinger, 1892)
Altais - Amur Melitaea amurensis Staudinger, 1892; in Romanoff, Mém. Lépid. 6 : 186
Melitaea aurelia seminigra Seitz, [1909]
Melitaea imitans Verity, 1930; Ent. Rec. J. Var. 42: 83
Melitaea britomartis frigidaltaica Verity, 1940
M. b. latefascia (Fixsen, 1887)
S.Ussuri, Korea, NE.China? Melitaea latefascia Fixsen, 1887; in Romanoff, Mém. Lépid. 3 : 303
Melitaea coreae Verity, 1930

Mellicta varia (Meyer-Dür, 1851)
Alps, Apennines. See [About maps] Grisons Fritillary
Melitaea varia Meyer-Dür, 1851; Schmett.-Schweiz.: 133
Melitaea varia [Wahlberg]
Mellicta varia [Simon Coombes]
Mellicta varia ; Higgins, 1981, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 43 (3): 165 (name)
Melitaea varia ; [Otakar Kudrna]

Larva on Gentiana, Gentianella [H&R]


Mellicta asteria (Freyer, 1828)
Alps, Altai?. See [About maps] Little Fritillary Kleiner Scheckenfalter
Melitaea asteria Freyer, 1828; Beitr. eur. Schmett. 1: 115, TL: Alps
Melitaea asteria [Wahlberg]
Mellicta asteria ; [BOW: pl. 3, f. 6]; Higgins, 1981, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 43 (3): 165 (name)
Melitaea asteria ; [Otakar Kudrna]

Mellicta menetriesi (Caradja, 1895)
Kamchatka. See [About maps] Melitaea menetriesi Caradja, 1895; Dt. ent. Z. Iris 8 (1) : 50, TL: [Amur Valley near the mouth of Ussuri River; Kamchatka]
orientalis Ménétriés, 1859; (preocc.)
septentriorientis Verity, 1930
Mellicta menetriesi [SZMN]
Melitaea menetriesi [Wahlberg]
Mellicta menetriesi ; Higgins, 1981, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 43 (3): 165 (name)
Mellicta (menetriesi) menetriesi ; [BRU2: 76, pl. 48, f. 10-12]

Mellicta rebeli (Wnukowsky, 1929)
Altai, Saur?. See [About maps] Melitaea rebeli Wnukowsky, 1929; Zool. Anz. 83 (9/10): 222, TL: Alt.[ai] sum.[mae] mont.[es] [Chuisky Mts., Altais]
Melitaea asteria var. altaica Staudinger, 1901; (preocc. Melitaea didyma altaica Grum-Grshimailo, 1893)
Melitaea rebeli [Wahlberg]
Mellicta rebeli ; Higgins, 1981, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 43 (3): 165 (name)
Mellicta (menetriesi) rebeli ; [BRU2: 77, pl. 47, f. 31-33, pl. 48, f. 22-24]

Mellicta westsibirica Dubatolov, 1998
N.Altai, Sayan. See [About maps] Mellicta westsibirica Dubatolov, 1998; , TL: [Novi Sharap, Ordynsk Distr., Nobosibirsk region]
Mellicta (menetriesi) westsibirica ; [BRU2: 77, pl. 48, f. 1-3]

Mellicta centralasiae Wnukowsky, 1929
E.Altais, Sayan, Tuva, Transbaikalia, Amur, Yakutia, Magadan, N, Mongolia. See [About maps] Mellicta centralasiae Wnukowsky, 1929; Zool. Anz. 83 (9/10): 222, TL: Kentei [Mongolia]
Melitaea mongolica Staudinger, 1892; (preocc.)
mongolicola Verity, 1930
f. kolymskya Higgins, 1955; , TL: Magadan
Melitaea centralasiae [Wahlberg]
Mellicta centralasiae ; Higgins, 1981, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 43 (3): 165 (name)
Melitaea centralasiae ;
Mellicta menetriesi centralasiae ; [Oleg Kosterin]
Mellicta (menetriesi) centralasiae ; [BRU2: 78, pl. 48, f. 4-9]
[centralasiae-1fu.jpg] 383x300 (~34Kb) upperside female A bushy meadow on the second right bank terrace of the Koen River at the mouth of the Volchikha Rivulet, just downstream of the village Nizhnii Koen, Iskitim District, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russiae. 4th July 1992, Photo © Oleg Kosterin [centralasiae-2mfv.jpg] 598x676 (~76Kb) underside male female An open pine forest on the Onon River right bank terrace, 5 km upstream of the village Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Onon District, Chita Province, S Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia, 5th July 1995, Photo © Oleg Kosterin [centralasiae-3mf.jpg] 644x596 (~47Kb) male female Highland dwarf birch (Betula rotundifolia) tundras on a ledge of the southerm principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulets, 2300 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 15th July 1998 (A pair making courtship), Photo © Oleg Kosterin
[centralasiae-3u.jpg] 548x400 (~44Kb) upperside Highland dwarf birch tundras on of the southerm principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain at the the Chikty Rivulet headwaters, 2400 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 15th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin [centralasiae-3v.jpg] 622x400 (~30Kb) underside Highland dwarf birch tundras on of the southerm principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain at the the Chikty Rivulet headwaters, 2400 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 15th July 1998, Photo © Oleg Kosterin


Mellicta plotina (Bremer, 1861)
-. See [About maps] Melitaea plotina Bremer, 1861; Mélanges biol. Acad. St.-Petersb. 3: 544, TL: Bureja, Ussuri [Bureya River Valley]
Melitaea pacifica Verity, 1932; Ent. Rec. 44: 71, TL: Transbaikalia
Mellicta plotina [SZMN]
Melitaea plotina [Wahlberg]
Mellicta plotina ; Higgins, 1981, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 43 (3): 165 (name); [MRS, 586]; [BRU2: 81, pl. 48, f. 19-21]
Altai, Sayan, Transbaikalia, Amur, Ussuri Melitaea ussuriae Verity, 1932; Ent. Rec. 44: 72
Mellicta plotina plotina ; [BRU2, 81]
M. p. standeli Dubatolov, 1997
Novosibirsk Mellicta plotina standeli ; [Oleg Kosterin]; [BRU2, 81]
[standeli-1fu.jpg] 533x400 (~52Kb) upperside female A damp meadow in the Shadrikha Rivulet valley 2 km upstream of the village Mel'nichikha, Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. 29th June 1994, Photo © Oleg Kosterin [standeli-2mv.jpg] 400x300 (~27Kb) underside male A swampy meadow in the Shadrikha Rivulet valley 2 km upstream of the village Mel'nichikha, Novosibirsk District and Province, West Siberia, Russia. 18th July 1992, Photo © Oleg Kosterin


Mellicta alatauica (Staudinger, 1881)
SE.Kazakhstan (Dzhungarsky Alatau). See [About maps] Melitaea alatauica Staudinger, 1881; Stett. ent. Ztg 42: 291, TL: Ala-Tau [Dzhungarsky Alatau, SE.Kazakhstan]
Mellicta alatauica ; Higgins, 1981, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 43 (3): 165 (name); [BRU2: 81, pl. 49, f. 7-9]
[alatauica-1fu.jpg] 400x300 (~31Kb) upperside female A meadow in the middle valley of the Kora River, 23 km NE of the Tekeli City (1700 m above sea level), the North Dzhungarskiy Alatau mountain chain (NE part of Tien Shan), the Taldy-Kurgan Province, SE Kazakhstan. 13th June 1993, Photo © Oleg Kosterin [alatauica-1mu.jpg] 400x300 (~35Kb) upperside male A meadow in the middle valley of the Kora River, 23 km NE of the Tekeli City (1700 m above sea level), the North Dzhungarskiy Alatau mountain chain (NE part of Tien Shan), the Taldy-Kurgan Province, SE Kazakhstan. 13th June 1993, Photo © Oleg Kosterin


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References:
[About maps]
Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.
[BHL]
The; Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!
[BHR]
D'Abrera; Butterflies of the Holarctic Region, Part I-III
[BMAT]
Tennent, John, 1996; The butterflies of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia; ISBN 0 906802 05 9
[BOW]
Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X
[BRU2]
Tuzov (ed.), Bogdanov, Churkin, Devyatkin, Dantchenko, Murzin, Samodurov, Zhdanko, 2000; Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories; Libytheidae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae; Volume 2
[D. Smirnov]
Russia, Moscow; e-mail: D. Smirnov
[EBW]
Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6
[ESP]
Heppner, 1981; The dates of E. J. C. Esper's Die Schmetterlinge in Abblidungen... 1776-[1830]; Archives of Natural History (1981) 10 (2): 251-254
[H&R]
Higgins, L.G, Riley, N.D, 1970; A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe
[HBN]
Francis Hemming, 1937; HÜBNER, A bibliographical and systematic account of the entomological works of Jacob Hübner and of the supplements thereto by Carl Geyer, Gottfried Franz von Frölich and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer, Vol 1 & 2
[Harri Arkkio]
Finland; For the time being these pictures are only for this site. Other usage not allowed.
[Karl Hofsäß]
Karl Hofsaess; e-mail: Karl Hofsäß
[Kimmo Silvonen]
Espoo, Finland; Kimmo's Lep Site
[LAMAS-2005]
Gerardo Lamas; Entomofauna 26 (6): 57-100; A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1886* - 1922+)
[Leif Wahlberg]
Julita, Sweden; e-mail: Leif Wahlberg
[MRS]
Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2
[Mario Maier]
Europäische Schmetterlinge; e-mail: Mario Maier
[Michel Tarrier]
Michel R. Tarrier; Malaga, Spain; http://www.tarrier.org
[NORLEP]
Norges Sommerfugler
[Oleg Kosterin]
Institue of Cytology & Genetics; Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/
[Pertti Pakkanen]
e-mail: Pertti Pakkanen; Butterfly and moth observations from Finland
[S. Shuichi Haupt]
e-mail: S. Shuichi Haupt; http://www.tu-berlin.de/fb7/ioeb/biologie/stefan.htm
[SPRK]
Seppänen, E. J, 1970; Suomen suurperhostoukkien ravintokasvit, Animalia Fennica 14
[SZMN]
Lepidoptera; Siberian Zoological Museum
[Simon Coombes]
1 Park Street, Plymouth, PL3 4BL, UK; 01752 607854; e-mail: Simon Coombes; http://www.butterfly-guide.co.uk
[Tero Piirainen]
Tampere, Finland; e-mail: Tero Piirainen
[Wahlberg]
Niklas Wahlberg; The NSG's voucher specimen database; Nymphalidae Systematics Group
[²]
This may require parentheses or not. I don't have the necessary information for this taxon.


Some related literature:
Abadjiev, 2002
Types of Balkan butterflies in the collection of The Natural History Museum, London Neue Ent. Nachr. 23: 3-53
Assmann, 1847
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Bremer, 1861
Neue Lepidopteren aus Ost-Sibirien und dem Amur-Lande gesammelt von Radde und Maack, bescrieben von Otto Bremer Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., 3: 461-495 [?462-496]
Bremer, 1861
Neue Lepidopteren aus Ost-Sibirien und dem Amur-Lande gesammelt von Radde und Maack, bescrieben von Otto Bremer Mélanges biol. Acad. St.-Petersb. 3: 538-589
Caradja, 1895
Die Grossschmetterlinge des Königreichs Rumänien Dt. ent. Z. Iris 8 (1) : 1-102
Esper, 1784
Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Theil I. Die Tagschmetterlinge. Fortsetzung. Band 2 Die Schmett. Th. I, Bd. 2 (1): 1-36, pl. 51-56 (1780) (2): 37-68, pl. 57-62 (1781) (3): 69-100, pl. 63-68 (1781) (4): 101-124, pl. 69-74 (1781) (5): 125-140, pl. 75-80 (1782) (7): 141-156, pl. 81-82 (1783) (8): 157-172, pl. 83-88 (1783) (9): 173-184, pl. 89-92 (1784) (28): 185-190, pl. 93 (1786)
Fixsen, 1887
Lepidoptera aus Korea in Romanoff, Mém. Lépid. 3 : 233-356, pl. 13-15
Freyer, 1828
Beiträge zur Geschichte europäischer Schmetterlinge mit Abbildungen nach der Natur Beitr. eur. Schmett. 1: 164pp, pl. 1-48
Fruhstorfer, 1917
Neue Rhopaloceren aus der Sammlung Leonhard Archiv Naturgesch. (A) 82 (2): 1-28, 1 pl. (January)
Higgins, 1955
A descriptive catalogue of Genus Mellicta Billberg and its species, with supplementary notes on the Genera Melitaea and Euphydryas Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 106 (1): 1, 1-131, pl. 1-2, f. 1-66
Higgins, 1981
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Geyer, 1832
Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge. I. Papiliones - Falter ("Erste Band") Samml. eur. Schmett. [1] (Ziefer?): 3-74 : pl. 1-88, f. 1-446 (1799-1800) pl. 89-96, f. 447-490 (1800-1803) pl. 97-114, f. 491-588 (1803-1804) pl. 115-119, f. 589-612 (1805) pl. 120-124, f. 613-636 (1805-1806) pl. 125-128, f. 637-652 (1806-1808) pl. 129-144, f. 653-727 (1808-1813) pl. 145-147, f. 728-741 (1814-1816) pl. 148-150, f. 742-756 (1816-1817) pl. 151, f. 757-762 (1818-1819) pl. 152-154, f. 757-774 (1819-1822) pl. 155, f. 775-778 (1822-1823) pl. 156-161, f. 779-806 (1823) pl. 162-175, f. 807-874 (1823-1824) pl. 176, f. 869-874 (1824-1825) pl. 177-181, f. 875-895 (1825-1826) (Geyer) pl. 182-187, f. 896-981 (1827-1828) pl. 188-195, f. 922-968 (1828-1832) pl. 196, f. 969-974 (1832-1833) pl. 197-201, f. 975-997 (1834-1836) pl. 202-203, f. 998-1009 (1836-1838) pl. 204-207, f. 1010-1029 (1837-1838)
Ménétriés, 1859
Lépidoptères de la Sibérie orientale et en particulier des rives de l'Amour in Schrenck, Reise Forschungen Amur-Lande 2 (1): 1-75, pl. 1-5
Oberthür, 1909
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Staudinger, 1871
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Staudinger, 1881
?Rhopaloceren von Lepsa und dem Ala Tau Stett. ent. Ztg 42: ?275-300
Staudinger, 1892
Die Macrolepidopteren des Amurgebiets. I. Theil. Rhopalocera, Sphinges, Bombyces, Noctuae in Romanoff, Mém. Lépid. 6 : 83-658, pl. 4-14
Verity, 1930
Notes on the relationship between the Melitaeidi and particularly between those of the athalia Rott. group Ent. Rec. J. Var. 42: 29-31, 40-44, 51-54, 71-75, 81-85, 109-111, 117-120, 131-135
Verity, 1940
Revision of the athalia-group of the genus Melitaea Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 89: 591-702
Wnukowsky, 1929
Einige Nomeklatur-Notizen über die paläarktischen Lepidopteren Zool. Anz. 83 (9/10): 221-224
Wojtusiak & Niesolowski, 1946
Lepidoptera of the Central Caucasus, collected during the Polish Alpine Expedition in 1935, with ecological and zoogeographical remarks. I Part. Macrolepidoptera Acta Mus. Hist. nat. Acad. polon., Crakow, 6: 1-74


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