Melitaea ambrisia is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in a restricted area of the mountain ranges of Central Asia.[2] The habitat consists of flowering meadows, forest edges and clearings.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Melitaea |
| Species: | M. ambrisia
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| Melitaea ambrisia Higgins, 1935[1]
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Subspecies
edit- Melitaea ambrisia alraschid
- Melitaea ambrisia ambrisia
References
edit- ^ "Melitaea ambrisia, 1935" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Leneveu, J; Chichvarkhin, A (2009). "Varying rates of diversification in the genus Melitaea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) during the past 20 million years" (PDF). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 97 (2): 346–361. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01208.x. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
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