Melitaea cinxia (Linnaeus, 1758)

Common names

🇬🇧 Glanville Fritillary
🇫🇷 Mélitée du Plantain, Déesse à ceinturons, Damier du Plantain, Damier pointillé, Damier, Mélitée de la Piloselle

Taxonomy

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

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

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

Photographs

img/melitaea-cinxia.webp — Melitaea cinxia

img/melitaea-cinxia-4.webp — Melitaea cinxia

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

img/melitaea-cinxia-5.webp — Melitaea cinxia foraging on a flower of Jasione montana

img/melitaea-cinxia-3.webp — Melitaea cinxia

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 cinxia (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2010. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/174285/7043226