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Provençal fritillary

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Melitaea
Species:	M. deione
Binomial name
*Melitaea deione* Geyer, 1832
Synonyms
Mellicta deione

Mating

The Provençal fritillary (Melitaea deione) is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.^[1] It is found in south-western Europe and North Africa. The range extends from the Iberian Peninsula to southern France and the Alps in Switzerland and Italy. It is also found in the Atlas Mountains.

Description

Male dorsal – MHNT
Male ventral - MHNT
Female dorsal - MHNT
Female ventral - MHNT

Biology

There are two generations per year with adults on wing from April to September. In the Alps, there is one generation.

The larva feeds on species of Linaria, Chaenorrhinum, Digitalis and Antirrhinum (including Antirrhinum sempervirens).

Subspecies

There are three subspecies:

M. d. deione
M. d. berisalii (Rühl, 1891)
M. d. nitida (Oberthür, 1909) (west Morocco (Rif mountains), western Algeria (Tlemcen, Sebdou))

References

^ "Melitaea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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External links

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Taxon identifiers
Melitaea deione	Wikidata: Q2631461 BioLib: 51613 BOLD: 26737 CoL: 936WZ EUNIS: 90931 Fauna Europaea (new): 6f6a21c7-b628-42c8-baf5-a1582dce9756 GBIF: 6229058 iNaturalist: 362066 MaBENA: MelliDeion Observation.org: 80875 Open Tree of Life: 462657

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