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Melitaea Fabricius 1807

Niklas Wahlberg and Andrew V. Z. Brower
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Containing group: Melitaeini

References

Wahlberg, N., A. V. Z. Brower, and S. Nylin. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography of tribes and genera in the subfamily Nymphalinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 86:227-251.

Wahlberg, N., and M. Zimmermann. 2000. Pattern of phylogenetic relationships among members of the tribe Melitaeini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) inferred from mtDNA sequences. Cladistics 16:347-363.

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Scientific Name Melitaea athalia
Location Ekebo, Julita, Sweden
Acknowledgements The copyright owner has released this image under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Creative Commons license.
source: flickr: Melitaea athalia - wing underside
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Copyright © 2004 Leif
Scientific Name Melitaea didyma
Location France, Aude, Villegly
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Identified By Niklas Wahlberg
Sex Female
Copyright © Niklas Wahlberg
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Niklas Wahlberg
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden


Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA

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Wahlberg, Niklas and Brower, Andrew V. Z. 2007. Melitaea Fabricius 1807. Version 11 March 2007 (temporary). http://tolweb.org/Melitaea/70305/2007.03.11 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

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