Melitaea persea is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Iran and Asia Minor to Afghanistan and the western parts of the Tian Shan mountains.
Melitaea persea | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Melitaea |
Species: | M. persea
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Binomial name | |
Melitaea persea | |
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Subspecies
edit- Melitaea persea caucasica Staudinger, 1870
- Melitaea persea dogsoni Grose-Smith, 1887
- Melitaea persea paphlagonia Fruhstorfer, 1917
- Melitaea persea montium Belter, 1934 (Syria, Lebanon, Israel)
- Melitaea persea sargon Hemming, 1932 (central Saudi Arabia, Iraq)[2]
References
edit- ^ "Melitaea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Subtribe Melitaeina