Melitaea ambrisia

Melitaea ambrisia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Melitaea
Species:	M. ambrisia
Binomial name
	Melitaea ambrisia; Higgins, 1935[1]
Synonyms
	Didymaeformia ambrisia (Higgins, 1935);

Melitaea ambrisia is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in a restricted area of the mountain ranges of Central Asia.[2] The habitat consists of flowering meadows, forest edges and clearings.

Subspecies

Melitaea ambrisia alraschid
Melitaea ambrisia ambrisia

References

"Melitaea ambrisia, 1935" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Leneveu, J; Chichvarkhin, A (2009). "Varying rates of diversification in the genus Melitaea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) during the past 20 million years" (PDF). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 97: 346–361. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01208.x. Retrieved April 18, 2023.

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[1] "Melitaea ambrisia, 1935" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[2] Leneveu, J; Chichvarkhin, A (2009). "Varying rates of diversification in the genus Melitaea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) during the past 20 million years" (PDF). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 97: 346–361. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01208.x. Retrieved April 18, 2023.