Melitaea arduinna subsp. arduinna, arduinna

Russell, Peter J. C. & Lukhtanov, Vladimir A., 2018, To which species should the name heynei Rühl, [1893] (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) be referred?, Zootaxa 4531 (1), pp. 81-94 : 90

M. arduinna arduinna ( Esper, [1783]),

TL: Kamyshin, Volga region, Russian Federation (= uralensis Eversmann, 1844, TL: southern Urals, Russian Federation; = kocaki Wagener & Gross, 1976, TL: Zap-Tal, Province Hakkari, Turkey)

; relatively small—males 35–40 mm, females 37–43 mm, ground colour dark fuscous with heavy black markings, particularly the postdiscal row of black squares, melanic females not uncommon ( Figs 6–8 ).

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FIGURES 6–14. Melitaea arduinna and M. cinxia (Scale bar = 10 mm). 6-8: M. arduinna arduinna, Russia, Orenburg Region, Krasnoznamenka, 230 m, 30 May 2011, P. Russell leg. (6: male, upperside; 7: male, underside; 8: melanic female, upperside). 9-10: M. cinxia, male, Russia, Orenburg Region, Krasnoznamenka, 230 m, 30 May 2011, P. Russell leg. (9: upperside; 10: underside). 11-12: M. arduinna evanescens, male, Tajikistan, Peter the Great Mts, Ganishou, 1900 m, 30 June 2017, V. A. Lukhtanov leg. (11: upperside; 12: underside). 13-14: M. arduinna rhodopensis, male, reared ex larvae, Serbia, Stara Planina, South of Kalna, emerged 12 June 2011, P. Russell leg. (13: upperside; 14: underside).