Melitaea didymoides

Short description: Species of butterfly

Melitaea didymoides

Scientific classification
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Animalia

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Arthropoda

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Insecta

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Lepidoptera

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Nymphalidae

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Melitaea

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M. didymoides

Binomial name
Melitaea didymoides

Eversmann, 1847[1]

Synonyms

* Melitaea sibirica Staudinger, 1861 (nomen nudum)
* Melitaea sibirica [Heyne], [1893] (preocc.)
* Melitaea mandschurica Seitz, [1909] (preocc.)
* Melitaea seitzi Matsumura, 1929
* Melitaea mandschukoana Bryk, 1940
* Melitaea cansicola Bryk, 1940

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.

Adults are on wing from June to July.

## Subspecies

* 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

1. ↑ "Melitaea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. ↑ Russian Insects

Wikidata ☰ Q6812940 entry

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