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Melitaea shahvarica Kolesnichenko & Kotlobay, 2022

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Rank: Species
No BHL Results
Parent: Melitaea Fabricius, 1807
Specific Name: shahvarica
Authorship: Kolesnichenko & Kotlobay
Publication: Kolesnichenko, Kirill A. & Anatoly A. Kotlobay. 2022 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 830(1): 1–60.
Page: 32
Figure(s): Figs 4A–D, 14, 16A–C, 18A–C, 21–28, 29A, 30
Type Specimen(s): holotype ♂ deposited in the State Darwin Museum (SDM), Moscow, Russia; more than 60 paratypes of both sexes in the Entomology Department of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (EDMSU), Russia and 50 paratypes of both sexes in the collection of A.A. Kotlobay
Type Locality: IRAN • Semnan Prov., Shahrud area, S macroslope of Shahvar Mt.; alt. 2200–2400 m; 5–6 May 2018; K. Kolesnichenko leg.
Fossil: No