Melitaea

Melitaea arcesia chuana, mas adultus, una ex genere Melitaea sensu stricto

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Animalia — Arthropoda

Classis : Insecta 
Ordo : Lepidoptera 
Familia : Nymphalidae 
Subfamilia : Nymphalinae 
Tribus : Melitaeini 
Subtribus : Melitaeina 
Newman, 1870
Genus : Melitaea 
Fabricius, 1807

   

Synonyma

Athaliaeformia Verity, 1950

Cinclidia Hübner, [1819]
Didymaeformis Verity, 1950
Lucina Rafinesque, 1815 (non Bruguière, [1797]: preoccupied)
Melilaea (lapsus)
Melinaea Sodoffsky, 1837 (non Hübner, 1816: praeoccupata)
Melitea (lapsus; non Peron & Lesueur, 1810: praeoccupata)
Melithea (lapsus)
Melithoea (lapsus)
Melitoea (lapsus)
Mellicta Billberg, 1820

Schoenis Hübner, [1819]

Species typica

Papilio cinxia Linnaeus, 1758

Melitaea est genus papilionum familiae Nymphalidarum. In tribu Melitaeinorum subfamiliae Nymphalinarum disponuntur; nonnulli autem eruditi hanc tribum ad gradum subfamiliae efferunt.

Species

Melitaea solona evadne (grex minerva) adulta.

Melitaea punica (grex phoebe) mas adultus.

Melitaea didymoides pekinensis (grex didyma) adulta.

Generi sunt circa 85 species, infra perscriptae.

Grex didyma/Didymaeformis

• Melitaea abyssinica Oberthür, 1909
• Melitaea acraeina (Staudinger, 1886)
• Melitaea agar Oberthür, 1888
• Melitaea ala Staudinger, 1881
• Melitaea alraschid Higgins, 1941
• Melitaea ambrisia Higgins, 1935
• Melitaea arduinna (Esper, 1783)
• Melitaea athene Staudinger, 1881
• Melitaea avinovi Sheljuzhko, 1914
• Melitaea casta (Kollar, [1848])
• Melitaea chitralensis Moore, 1901
• Melitaea deserticola Oberthür, 1909
• Melitaea didyma (typus generis Didymaeformis)
• Melitaea didymina Staudinger, 1895
• Melitaea didymoides Eversmann, 1847
• Melitaea enarea Fruhstorfer, 1917
• Melitaea fergana Staudinger, 1882
• Melitaea infernalis Grum-Grshimailo, 1891
• Melitaea interrupta Kolenati, 1846
• Melitaea jitka Weiss & Major, 2000
• Melitaea kotshubeji Sheljuzhko, 1929
• Melitaea latonigena Eversmann, 1847
• Melitaea lunulata Staudinger, 1901
• Melitaea lutko Evans, 1932
• Melitaea meherparvari Carbonell, 2007
• Melitaea mimetica Higgins, 1940
• Melitaea mixta Evans, 1912
• Melitaea ninae Sheljuzhko, 1935
• Melitaea persea Kollar, [1850]
• Melitaea pseudoala Sheljuzhko, 1928
• Melitaea robertsi Butler, 1880
• Melitaea romanovi Grum-Grshimailo, 1891
• Melitaea sarvistana Wiltshire, 1941
• Melitaea saxatilis Christoff, 1876Formula:Verify source
• Melitaea shandura Evans, 1924
• Melitaea sutschana Staudinger, 1892
• Melitaea trivia
• Melitaea yuenty Oberthür, 1888

Grex cinxia/Melitaea sensu stricto

• Melitaea amoenula C. & R.Felder, [1867]
• Melitaea arcesia Bremer, 1861
• Melitaea balbita Moore, 1874
• Melitaea bellona Leech, [1892]
• Melitaea cinxia (typus generis Melitaeae)
• Melitaea diamina
• Melitaea jezabel Oberthür, 1888
• Melitaea protomedia Ménétriés, 1859
• Melitaea sindura Moore, 1865

Grex minerva

• Melitaea asteroidea Staudinger, 1881
• Melitaea balba Evans, 1912
• Melitaea elisabethae Avinoff, 1910
• Melitaea ludmilla Churkin, Kolesnichenko & Tuzov, 2000
• Melitaea minerva Staudinger, 1881
• Melitaea pallas Staudinger, 1886
• Melitaea solona Alphéraky, 1881
• Melitaea sultanensis Staudinger, 1886
• Melitaea turanica Erschoff, 1874

Grex phoebe/Cinclidia

• Melitaea aetherie
• Melitaea collina Lederer, 1861
• Melitaea consulis Wiltshire, 1941
• Melitaea gina Higgins, 1941
• Melitaea kuchi Wyatt, 1961
• Melitaea phoebe (typus generis Cinclidiae)
• Melitaea pseudosibina Alberti, 1969
• Melitaea punica Oberthür, 1876
• Melitaea scotosia Butler, 1878
• Melitaea sibina Alphéraky, 1881
• Melitaea telona (olim in M. phoebe aut M. punica)
• Melitaea turkmanica Higgins, 1940

Grex Mellicta

Melitaea centralasiae (grex Mellicta) adulta.

• Melitaea alatauica Staudinger, 1881
• Melitaea ambigua Ménétriés in Schrenck, 1859
• Melitaea asteria
• Melitaea athalia (typus generis Mellictae)
• Melitaea aurelia
• Melitaea britomartis
• Melitaea centralasiae (Wnukowsky, 1929) (aliquando in M. menetriesi)
• Melitaea caucasogenita Verity, 1930
• Melitaea deione
• Melitaea menetriesi Caradja, 1895
• Melitaea nevadensis Oberthür, 1904
• Melitaea parthenoides
• Melitaea plotina Bremer, 1861
• Melitaea rebeli Wnukowsky, 1929
• Melitaea varia
• Melitaea westsibirica (Dubatolov, 1998)

Incertae sedis

• Melitaea kunlunensis Kudrna & Mracek, 1994
• Melitaea oorschoti Eckweiler, 2008
• Melitaea paludani Clench & Shoumatoff, 1956
• Melitaea tangigharuensis de Freina, 1980
• Melitaea wiltshirei Higgins, 1941

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Melitaeam spectant.

• Melitaea. In Fauna Europaea. Versio 2.1, 22 Decembris 2009.
• Pitkin, Brian, et Paul Jenkins. 2004a. Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Melitaea. Versio 5 Novembris 2004.
• Pitkin, Brian, et Paul Jenkins. 2004b. Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Mellicta. Versio 5 Novembris 2004.
• Savela, Markku. 2009. Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Mellicta. Versio 17 Augusti 2009.
• Savela, Markku. 2010. Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Melitaea. Versio 2 Maii 2010.