Melitaea

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

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

Generi sunt circa 85 species, infra perscriptae.^[1]

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 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

Notae

↑ Vide citationes in Haaramo 2010, 2011.

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.

[1] Vide citationes in Haaramo 2010, 2011.

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