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Southern Heath Fritillary
Melitaea celadussa
Melitaea nevadensis is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
From the article Melitaea nevadensis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
It has a wingspan of about 40 millimetres (1.6 in). These butterflies are golden yellow or orange, with fine black markings.
Range & habitat
Melitaea nevadensis replaces Melitaea athalia in the Iberian Peninsula, in southeastern France, western and southern Switzerland, and most of Italy. In France and Italy, the ranges of these two species are separated by a broad transition zone where the specimens have intermediate morphological features.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 359097.