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Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

SHILAP, 2020
Morphological characters of value in distinguishing Melitaea phoebe from M. ornata are exemplified from photographs of specimens from sympatric and partially synchronic populations in North Macedonia and Italy.
P. J. C. Russell, L. Bartolozzi, R. L. Hawkins, W. J. Tennent, T. Léger   +4 more
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Review of the fritillary species systematically close to Melitaea lutko Evans, 1932 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) with analysis of their geographic distribution and interrelations with host plants

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2022
This review considers a fascinating, from a zoogeographical viewpoint, group of closely related species: Melitaea lutko Evans, 1932, M. timandra Coutsis & van Oorschot, 2014, M. mimetica Higgins, 1940 stat. rev. and M. shahvarica sp. nov.
Kirill A. Kolesnichenko, Anatoly A. Kotlobay   +1 more
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The association between wing morphology and dispersal is sex-specific in the glanville fritillary butterfly Melitaea cinxia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2007
We examined whether dispersal was associated with body and wing morphology and individual quality, and whether such an association was sex-specific, in the Glanville fritillary butterfly Melitaea cinxia (L.) in Paldiski on the north coast of Estonia ...
Casper J Breuker, Paul M Brakefield, Melanie Gibbs   +2 more
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Recent butterfly extinctions in Sweden reveal the inadequacy of site‐based protection and the need for landscape‐scale management

Conservation Science and Practice
Recent extinctions of protected butterflies in regions with strong conservation frameworks raise concerns about biodiversity loss in northwestern Europe.
Markus Franzén, Victor Johansson
doaj   +2 more sources

Melitaea cinxia

, 2015
Melitaea cinxia (Linnaeus, 1758) P. [apilio] cinxia Linnaeus, 1758: 480 FIRST RECORD FOR THE VALDIERI AREA. — Turati & Verity (1911). CHOROTYPE. — Asiatic-Euro-Mediterranean. ECOLOGY. — Subnemoral, lowland-upper montane, thermophilous, mesophilous. EDIT PROJECT SAMPLING.
Bonelli, Simona, Barbero, Francesca, Casacci, Luca Pietro, Cerrato, Cristiana, Balletto, Emilio   +4 more
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Thermal Plasticity of Multiple Traits Varies More Within Than Between Populations of <i>Plantago lanceolata</i> at Its Northern Range Edge. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
In this study, we investigate thermal phenotypic plasticity across multiple traits in Plantago lanceolata populations located at the species' northern range edge in the Åland Islands, Finland. Using a controlled greenhouse experiment with three temperature regimes, we assessed variation in vegetative, reproductive, pigmentation, and pathogen‐related ...
Hällfors MH, Robson TM, Burg S, Pentikäinen S, Koivusaari SHM, Luoto M, Nezval J, Pech R, Saastamoinen M, Schulman LE, Sirén J, Susi H.   +11 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

LepEU: A Consortium to Study the Population Genomics of Butterflies and Moths Across Europe. [PDF]

Evol Appl
ABSTRACT LepEU, the European Lepidopteran Population Genomics Consortium, was launched in 2023 to coordinate continental‐scale collections and generate population‐level genomic data for butterflies and moths across Europe. Its whole‐genome resequencing strategy takes advantage of the growing availability of reference genomes for Lepidoptera.
Beldade P, Vila M, Arif S, Bourgois A, Bridle J, Després L, Elias M, Espeland M, Fric ZF, Matos-Maraví P, Nam K, Poloni R, Repullés M, Saastamoinen M, Steward RA, Tunström K, Ulaşli B, Valentino T, Weinhold A, Wiemers M, Bailey RI, Blaxter M, Dincă V, Lucek K, Meier JI, Nielsen ME, Stefanescu C, Wright CJ, LepEU Community, Joron M, Wheat CW.   +30 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Mild Warming Induces Divergent Plastic Responses in Gene Expression Among Populations of a Temperate Butterfly. [PDF]

Mol Ecol
ABSTRACT In response to potentially stressful conditions, for example due to climate change, organisms can move, adjust through phenotypic plasticity and evolve. Evolution can act on mean trait values, or on plasticity itself. Whether phenotypic plasticity, evolution, or evolution of plasticity is the dominant response to environmental change is still ...
Verspagen N, Frapin M, Das Roy R, Mäkinen H, Saastamoinen M, DiLeo MF.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Two forms of Melitaea trivia ([Denis et Schiffermüller], 1775) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from Volgograd Region (Russia): the systematic position on the basis of molecular genetic studies [PDF]

Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2014
The study of molecular genetic markers (COI and EF-1a) reveals that the taxon Melitaea robertsi uvarovi Gorbunov, 1995 from Volgograd Region (Russia) can be considered only as a form of Melitaea trivia ([Denis et Schiffermüller], 1775).
G.V. Kuznetsov, B.V. Stradomsky, E.S. Fomina   +2 more
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The identities of some subspecies, forms and individual specimens in museums previously classified as Melitaea phoebe ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

SHILAP, 2023
The identities of further taxa associated previously with Melitaea phoebe: pseudosibina Alberti, 1969, allophylus Rütimeyer, 1942 and rubialesi Gómez Bustillo, 1973 are identified as M. phoebe, and M. ornata, respectively.
Peter J. Russell, Antonio Vives Moreno
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