Melitaea latonigena (Eversmann, 1847)

Kosterin, Oleg E., 2023, Early summer aspect of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Republic of Khakassia as examined in 2000, with some additional data, Amurian Zoological Journal XV (2), pp. 325-354 : 346-347

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.33910/2686-9519-2023-15-2-325-354

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:912125ED-10E5-4A6C-86E7-548CCD69F364

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/05368791-C525-FFB4-2962-FA29FEE9EDF8

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scientific name

Melitaea latonigena (Eversmann, 1847)
status

 

Melitaea latonigena (Eversmann, 1847) View in CoL

Specimens: 12\Dzhabash, 1♂, 1♀.

Remarks: This and the previous species are very close but are well recognised by the veins inside the UNH postdiscal orange band distinctly stressed with black scales, and the black borders of that band contacting veins. In Altai, Krasnoyarskiy Region and Khakassia, M. latonigena replaces M. didyma at higher elevations with in general more wooded environment, yet inhabiting barren open slopes with stony steppe ( Gorbunov, Kosterin 2007). It was natural to find the former from the Sayanian side of the Abazinskiy Pass through the Abakan Mountain Range, at the Dzhabash River in the West Sayan foothills

Observations: Found at stony steppe slope in a brook valley.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae

Genus

Melitaea

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