Melitaea didymoides is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Russia (Transbaikalia to the Amur and Ussuri regions) as well as in Mongolia and China.[2] The habitat consists of dry meadows and xerothermic slopes with thin vegetation.
Melitaea didymoides | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Melitaea |
Species: | M. didymoides
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Binomial name | |
Melitaea didymoides | |
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Adults are on wing from June to July.
Subspecies
edit- Melitaea didymoides didymoides (southern Tuva, Transbaikalia, Amur)
- Melitaea didymoides yagakuana Matsumura, 1927 (southern Ussuri)
- Melitaea didymoides pekinensis Seitz, [1909] (northern China)
- Melitaea didymoides latonia Grum-Grshimailo, 1891 (central China)
- Melitaea didymoides eupatides Fruhstorfer, 1917 (Gansu)
- Melitaea didymoides hummeli Bryk, 1940 (southern Mongolia)
References
edit- ^ "Melitaea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Russian Insects