M. phoebe enoch Higgins, 1941

[TL: Askhabad, Turkmenistan] is here elevated to species status: Melitaea enoch Higgins, 1941 . The Type Locality is just across the border from north-eastern Iran where this taxon is widely distributed (Tshikolovets et al. 2014: 319–320). The type material, present in the Natural History Museum, London, consists of a holotype male (Figs 16A, B, C), an allotype female and four male and one female paratypes, All the specimens display the wing characters typical of M. ornata, of which it was considered previously to be a subspecies (Tshikolovets et al. 2014: 319 and Russell & Tennent, 2016: 47, note 33).