Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Allotriocarida > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Order Lepidoptera > Superfamily Papilionoidea > Family Nymphalidae > Subfamily Melitaeinae > Tribe Melitaeini > Genus Melitaea

Melitaea didyma (Esper, 1778)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Papilio Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Melitaea*	Fabricius, 1807	accepted genus name
*Athaliaeformis*	Vérity, 1950	generic synonym
*Cinclidia*	Hübner, 1818	generic synonym
*Didymaeformis*	Vérity, 1950	generic synonym
*Mellicta*	Billberg, 1820	generic synonym

Species group names

*Melitaea meridionalis*	Staudinger, 1870	subjective synonym
*Melitaea occidentalis*	Staudinger, 1861	subjective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: Tweekleurige parelmoervlinder sources: Dutch Species Register

English: Spotted Fritillary sources: Charles Hussey

Welsh: britheg smotiog

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Citation

van Nieukerken, Dr Erik J. Karsholt, Dr Ole. Melitaea didyma (Esper, 1778). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/13efbc82-8b66-4599-9f2f-641d1ec7d61d

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by van Nieukerken, Dr Erik J. Karsholt, Dr Ole & by Verovnik, Rudi & Wiemers, Martin Vliegenthart, Albert

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