| Nymphalidae Melitaeinae Melitaeini |
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| Melitaea telona Frühstorfer, 1908 | |
 Sicilian Fritillary
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Genus: Melitaea Fabricius, 1807 Original genus: Melitaea Fabricius, 1807
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Synonims (genus): Athaliaeformis Verity, 1950 Cinclidia Hübner, 1818 Didymaeformis Verity, 1950 Mellicta Billberg, 1820 |
Synonims (species): emipunica Verity, 1919 ogygia Frühstorfer, 1908 |
, Montagna Longa (Palermo), Sicily, Italy. Reared ex female<br>(Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees)?images/Nymphalidae/MeTeA001HR.jpg "M. telona (© Martin Gascoigne-Pees)") |
Adult (male), Montagna Longa (Palermo), Sicily, Italy. Reared ex female (Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees) |
, Montagna Longa (Palermo), Sicily, Italy. Reared ab ovo<br>(Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees)?images/Nymphalidae/MeTeA002HR.jpg "M. telona (© Martin Gascoigne-Pees)") |
Adult (female), Montagna Longa (Palermo), Sicily, Italy. Reared ab ovo (Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees) |
, Montagna Longa (Palermo), Sicily, Italy. Reared ex female<br>(Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees)?images/Nymphalidae/MeTeA003HR.jpg "M. telona (© Martin Gascoigne-Pees)") |
Adult (male), Montagna Longa (Palermo), Sicily, Italy. Reared ex female (Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees) |
, Montagna Longa (Palermo), Sicily, Italy. Reared ex female<br>(Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees)?images/Nymphalidae/MeTeA004HR.jpg "M. telona (© Martin Gascoigne-Pees)") |
Adult (female), Montagna Longa (Palermo), Sicily, Italy. Reared ex female (Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees) |
?images/Nymphalidae/MeTeL004HR.jpg "M. telona (© Marcello Romano)") |
Larva, Madonie, Sicily, Italy, April 15, 2007. On Cynara cardunculus (Photo by Marcello Romano) |
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Larva, Madonie, Sicily, Italy, April 15, 2007. On Cynara cardunculus; the larva on the left is Melitaea aetherie (Hübner, [1826]) (Photo by Marcello Romano) |
, Sicily, Italy, April 2005. Reared ab ovo<br>(Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees)?images/Nymphalidae/MeTeL001HR.jpg "M. telona (© Martin Gascoigne-Pees)") |
Larvae, Montagna Longa (Palermo), Sicily, Italy, April 2005. Reared ab ovo (Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees) |
, Sicily, Italy, April 2005. Reared ab ovo<br>(Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees)?images/Nymphalidae/MeTeL002HR.jpg "M. telona (© Martin Gascoigne-Pees)") |
Larvae, Montagna Longa (Palermo), Sicily, Italy, April 2005. Reared ab ovo (Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees) |
, Montagna Longa (Palermo), Sicily, Italy, June 2005. Reared ab ovo<br>(Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees)?images/Nymphalidae/MeTeL003HR.jpg "M. telona (© Martin Gascoigne-Pees)") |
Larvae (second instar), Montagna Longa (Palermo), Sicily, Italy, June 2005. Reared ab ovo (Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees) |
, Sicily, Italy. Reared ab ovo<br>(Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees)?images/Nymphalidae/MeTeP001HR.jpg "M. telona (© Martin Gascoigne-Pees)") |
Pupa, Montagna Longa (Palermo), Sicily, Italy. Reared ab ovo (Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees) |
, Sicily, Italy. Reared ab ovo<br>(Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees)?images/Nymphalidae/MeTeP002HR.jpg "M. telona (© Martin Gascoigne-Pees)") |
Pupa, Montagna Longa (Palermo), Sicily, Italy. Reared ab ovo (Photo by Martin Gascoigne-Pees) |
, Italy, June 2007<br>(Photo by Peter Russell)?images/Nymphalidae/MeTeH001HR.jpg "M. telona (© Peter Russell)") |
Habitat, Passo delle Crocelle (Potenza), Italy, June 2007 (Photo by Peter Russell) |
?images/Nymphalidae/MeTeH002HR.jpg "M. telona (© Peter Russell)") |
Habitat, Calabria, Italy, June 2006. Centaurea deusta (Photo by Peter Russell) |
?images/Nymphalidae/MeTeH003HR.jpg "M. telona (© Peter Russell)") |
Habitat, Basilicata, Italy, July 2007. Centaurea bracteata (Photo by Peter Russell) |
Foodplants:
Centaurea bracteata, Centaurea deusta
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