Melitaea didyma (Esper, 1778)

Common names

🇬🇧 Spotted Fritillary
🇫🇷 Mélitée orangée, Damier orangé, Diane

Taxonomy

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

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

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

Photographs

img/melitaea-didyma.webp — Melitaea didyma sitting on a flower of Trifolium repens

img/melitaea-didyma-3.webp — Melitaea didyma sitting on a flower of Knautia integrifolia

img/melitaea-didyma-4.webp — Melitaea didyma foraging on a flower of Cirsium arvense

img/melitaea-didyma-2.webp — Melitaea didyma sitting on a flower of Trifolium repens

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 didyma (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2010. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/174401/7065245