New subspecies of Melitaea sultanensis Staudinger, 1886, M. elisabethae Avinoff, 1910 and M. robertsi Butler, 1880 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)

The paper presents the descriptions of 3 new taxa: Melitaea robertsi hersilia Churkin, Bogdanov et Kolesnichenko, ssp. nova is described from Suusamyr Mts., Tian-Shan (Kyrgyzstan), M. elisabethae tremasovi Churkin, Kolesnichenko et Bogdanov, ssp. nova from Mazorsky Range (Darvaz, Tadjikistan) and M....

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Main Authors: Churkin, Sergei V., Bogdanov, Pavel V., Kolesnichenko, Kirill A.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Altai State University 2024
Subjects:
Melitaea
zoogeography
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
taxonomy
new subspecies
sultanensis
robertsi
elisabethae
Pamirs
Sibirica
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10937590
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Summary:The paper presents the descriptions of 3 new taxa: Melitaea robertsi hersilia Churkin, Bogdanov et Kolesnichenko, ssp. nova is described from Suusamyr Mts., Tian-Shan (Kyrgyzstan), M. elisabethae tremasovi Churkin, Kolesnichenko et Bogdanov, ssp. nova from Mazorsky Range (Darvaz, Tadjikistan) and M. sultanensis sochivkoi Churkin, Kolesnichenko et Bogdanov, ssp. nova from Gardaniushti Mts. (South Tadjikistan). The holotypes of M. trivia bactriana Shchetkin, 1984, and M. t. chorasana Shchetkin, 1984 are figured for the first time.

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