Melitaea athalia (Rottemburg, 1775)

Common names

🇬🇧 Heath Fritillary
🇫🇷 Mélitée du Mélampyre, Damier Athalie

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Nymphalinae
Tribe: Melitaeini
Subtribe: Melitaeina
Genus: Melitaea
Species: Melitaea athalia

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Photographs

img/melitaea-athalia.webp — Melitaea athalia ♂ & ♀ sitting on a flower of Daucus carota subsp. carota

img/melitaea-athalia-2.webp — Melitaea athalia

img/melitaea-athalia-3.webp — Melitaea athalia foraging on a flower of Centaurea jacea

Sources

van Swaay, C., Wynhoff, I., Verovnik, R., Wiemers, M., López Munguira, M., Maes, D., Sasic, M., Verstrael, T., Warren, M., & Settele, J. (2010). Melitaea athalia (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2010. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/174355/7056436