Melitaea parthenoides Keferstein, 1851

Common names

🇫🇷 Mélitée de la Lancéole, Mélitée des Scabieuses, Damier Parthénie

Taxonomy

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

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

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

Photographs

img/melitaea-parthenoides.webp — Melitaea parthenoides

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

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

img/melitaea-parthenoides-5.webp — Melitaea parthenoides foraging on a flower of Trifolium repens

img/melitaea-parthenoides-3.webp — Melitaea parthenoides 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 parthenoides. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2010. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-1.RLTS.T173315A6989319.en