Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. They are absent from the far north of europe and parts of the iberian. The possibility of using characters of the female genital. Ivanauskas zoological museum article pdf available in zoology and ecology 194. Media in category melitaea athaliathe following 120 files are in this category, out of 120 total. A noteworthy result in the athalia group is that melitaea celadussa, which is usually considered a subspecies of melitaea athalia. Pdf host plant use by the heath fritillary butterfly, melitaea athalia. Wild beautiful butterfly, heath fritillary, melitaea athalia, sitting on the green leaves, insect in the nature habitat, spring in the meadow, european wildlife, czech republic. These butterflies live in almost all of europe especially finland and in parts of northwest africa. The male ancillary appendages of european species of the. Heath fritillary, melitaea athalia rottemburg, 1775, nymphalidae praktfjarilar. We present a study of habitat use, oviposition plant choice, and food plant suitability for the checkerspot butterfly melitaea athalia rottemburg.
The heath fritillary melitaea athalia is a butterfly of the family nymphalidae. Will refaunation by feral horse affect five checkerspot butterfly species melitaea fabricius, 1807 coexisting at xeric grasslands of podyji national park, czech republic. Melitaea aurelia nickerl, 1850 en italie septentrionale lepidoptera. Patterns of genetic and morphometric differentiation were surveyed in melitaea mellicta athalia populations of the carpathian basin. Pdf occurrence of an aberrant population of melitaea athalia. The biodiversity heritage library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. This page was last edited on 10 october 2019, at 23. Melitaea athalia sachalinensis matsumura, 1925 type locality. Its association with coppiced woodland earned it the name woodmans follower in parts of the uk. Most fritillaries belong to the family nymphalidae. The wings are brown above, with transverse parallel. The roles of foraging environment, host species, and host. Melitaea and euphydryas two closely related genera of butterflies of the family nymphalidae.
The term refers to the chequered markings on the wings, usually black on orange, and derives from the latin fritillus meaning dicebox or, according to some sources, a chequerboard. According to this checklist, 496 species of the superfamily papilionoidea occur. Northsaghalien rikovskoie matsumura, 1925 central sakhalin, tymovsky dis trict, rykovskoe now kirovskoe. It is named for the naturalist who discovered it and the checkerboard pattern on its wings.
It is extremely similar to the assmanns fritillary britomartis from which i dont think it can be separated reliably from wing markings alone. The glanville fritillary melitaea cinxia is a butterfly of the family nymphalidae. Pdf melitaea nymphalidae species from collections of t. A palaearctic species distributed from britain through europe, turkey and most of northern asia to japan. A rather dusky species, found locally in flowery meadows where it flutters and glides slowly.
Excel file containing 12 separate sheets, presenting the following, left to right sheets 18. Patterns of genetic and morphometric differentiation in melitaea. Butterflies of europe, 2004 out of print is now available as a pdf file 73 380mo. Melitaea cinxia is highly threatened in central europe habitat loss. Wahlberg varying rates of diversification in the genus melitaea lepidoptera. Dec 31, 2018 this paper presents an updated checklist of the butterflies of europe, together with their original name combinations, and their occurrence status in each european country. They are absent from the far north of europe and parts of the iberian peninsula. Introduction the genus athalia was established by leach1817 based on tenthredo spinarum fabricius as a type species belong ing to the subfamily tenthredininae. Melitaea cinxia is highly local in the eastern swabian alb, but seems to spread a little bit in the last years and has already reched the district of heidenheim in 2012. Pdf climate induced changes in the phenotypic plasticity of. The morphology of female genital armature of seven species of the genus mellicta belonging to the m. Melitaea nymphalidae species from collections of t.
This page was last edited on 15 september 2019, at 17. Nymphalidae during the past 20 million years julien leneveu1, anton chichvarkhin2 and niklas wahlberg1,3 1laboratory of genetics, department of biology, university of turku, 20014 turku, finland 2institute of biology and soil science, 100letiya vladivostoka 159, vladivostok 690022, russia. Rohwer1910 regarded it as the subfamily athaliinaeincluding only a genus athalia of the family tenthredinidae. Varying rates of diversification in the genus melitaea. It is recommended to name the svg file taxonomical changes in the melitaea phoebe species group. Varying rates of diversification in the genus melitaea lepidoptera. It is best to login or register first but you may post as a guest.
Schritte international 2 glossar english pdf scoop. Climate induced changes in the phenotypic plasticity of the heath fritillary melitaea athalia article pdf available in european journal of entomology january 2015 with 175 reads. The butterfly has historically been linked with the traditional practice of woodland coppicing, giving it the. Melitaea and euphydryas article about melitaea and.
Click on any photograph to go to an enlarged picture, or simply scroll down the page. Melitaea cinxia live gregariously as larvae, dispersing to pupate singly in the leaf litter in the vicinity of host plants kuussaari et al. As delimited here, melitaea includes the genus mellicta, making the subtribe melitaeina monotypic but see below. Melitaea nevadensis is often referred as a variety probably or subspecies of melitaea celadussa.
It is found throughout the palaearctic from western europe to japan, in heathland. It is shown that some characteristics of female genitalia can be used to clarify the systematic. We conducted analyses to assess the phylogeny of the genus and estimated the timing of divergence and the most likely distribution of ancestral populations. The most important taxonomical changes in the melitaea phoebe species group from 1941 to 2016.
Melitaea athalia used for experiments on oviposition choice and larval performance the m. The melitaea athalia photographed in erzurum bears a resemblance to the aberration from kars province given in. Pdf on nov 25, 2017, sotiris alexiou and others published occurrence of an aberrant population of melitaea athalia rottemburg, 1775. Enter the name or part of a name you wish to search for.
Athalia, baalite queen of judah and daughter of jezebel soprano josabeth, wife of joad soprano joas, king of judah boy soprano joad, high priest alto mathan, priest of baal, formerly a jewish priest tenor abner, captain of the jewish forces bass mixed chorus satb young virgins, israelites, priests and levites, attendants, sidonian. Melitaea is a genus of brushfooted butterflies family nymphalidae. Melitaea athalia the diagnostic underside features that di. An melitaea in nahilalakip ha familia nga nymphalidae. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. It is found throughout the palaearctic from western europe to japan, in heathland, grassland, and in coppiced woodland. Formerly melitaea celadussa was considered as a subspecies of melitaea athalia rottemburg, 1775, but molecular studies mitochondrial dna have determined that melitaea celadussa is a different species of melitaea athalia. It is also relatively small, although male athalia can also be quite small. They are here placed in the tribe melitaeini of subfamily nymphalinae. The male ancillary appendages of european species of the athalia group of the genus melitaea by w g sheldon. Will refaunation by feral horse affect five checkerspot. Melitaea aurelia on eurobutterflies by matt rowlings. Pdf we present a study of habitat use, oviposition plant choice, and food plant suitability for the checkerspot butterfly melitaea athalia rottemburg.
Wild beautiful butterfly heath fritillary melitaea stock. Small fritillaries euphydryas distinguishing euphydryas by size a comparison of approximate average sizes. An updated checklist of the european butterflies lepidoptera. Heath fritillary melitaea athalia next page back to list. Patterns of genetic and morphometric differentiation in. Wing morphology of the three closely related species of melitaea m.
As noted above, mellicta is considered to be a subgenus of melitaea for the time being. It is considered a threatened species in the uk and germany, but not europewide or globally. Wing pattern morphology of three closely related melitaea. Nymphalidae, which are widely spread in the palaearctic region. Pdf file or convert a pdf file to docx, jpg, or some other file format. In the new european taxonomy, the erstwhile mellicta group of fritillaries are now included in the melitaea genus. Text is available under the creative commons attributionsharealike license. It is interactive so you can click and go directly to the aim page. Media in category melitaea athalia the following 120 files are in this category, out of 120 total. Heath fritillary melitaea athalia x high brown fritillary argynnis adippe x holly blue celastrina argiolus x idas blue plebejus idas x x if in doubt ilex hairstreak satyrium ilicis x x knapweed fritillary melitaea phoebe x langs shorttailed.
Melitaea athalia is in strong decline in the lowlands due to darkening processes in the forests eutrophication, dense afforestation, no more clearcuttings and the reduction of extensive grasslands and fens. The position indicated here is the adams compromise most basal node. In the present study, we sampled, as exhaustively as possible, the butterflies belonging to the genus melitaea lepidoptera. Pdf the taxonomic identity of melitaea athaliaeformia. Arthropodplant article pdf available in arthropodplant interactions 22. These butterflies are distinct genetically and morphologically at the genital level. The taxonomic identity of melitaea athaliaeformia mayi gunder lepidoptera, nymphalidae article pdf available in psyche a journal of entomology 611 january 1954 with 9 reads. Melitaea athalia on eurobutterflies by matt rowlings. Media in category stara planina the following 200 files are in this category, out of 673 total. Host plant use by the heath fritillary butterfly, melitaea athalia. Melitaea ambigua menetries, 1859 taxonomy class insecta subclass pterygota infraclass neoptera superorder holometabola order lepidoptera superfamily papilionoidea family nymphalidae subfamily melitaeinae tribe melitaeini subtribe melitaeina genus melitaea subgenus mellicta species melitaea ambigua. Media in category melitaea this category contains only the following file. Wachtelweizenscheckenfalter, gemeiner scheckenfalter english. The heath fritillary is one of the rarest of our small fritillary species, distinguished by its dusky wing colours.