LEPIDOPTERA

• N Y M P H A L I D A E Swainson, 1827

  • MELLICTA Billberg, 1820

    
    

    • Mellicta (menetriesi) menetriesi (Caradja, 1895)

Mellicta (menetriesi) menetriesi (Caradja, 1895)

• TYPE LOCALITY. «...de Bouri [ 1'embouchure de 1'Oussouri],... au Kamtchatka». [Amur Valley near the mouth of Ussuri River; Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia].

• SYNONYMS. orientalis Menetries, 1859, nom. praeoccup.; septentriorientis Verity, 1930.

• RANGE. Kamchatka.

• TAXONOMIC NOTES. Although menetriesi is obviously closely related to the following three taxa of this group, it is strikingly dissimilar to the neighbouring M. centralasiae kolymskya. In contrast to the other forms of the super-species menetriesi, this taxon is fairly constant in its external features.

• HABITATS AND BIOLOGY. Tall-grass meadows and forest edges. Flight period: July.

• SIMILAR SPECIES. Mellicta centralasiae kolymskya: UPS ground colour uniform; pale spots of UNS unusually not extended, UNH marginal band double.

Photo and text: Guide to the BUTTERFLIES OF RUSSIA and adjacent territories Volume 2. PENSOFT, Sofia - Moscow. 2000