Melitaea phoebe var. aetherea, Eversmann, 1851

Russell, Peter J. C., Lukhtanov, Vladimir A. & Tennent, W. John, 2022, Reassessment of the status of some European and Asian Melitaea taxa described as subspecies of Melitaea phoebe ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775), with designations of lectotypes where appropriate (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), Zootaxa 5141 (1), pp. 25-38 : 26

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5141.1.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6580812
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scientific name	Melitaea phoebe var. aetherea
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M. phoebe var. aetherea Eversmann, 1851 View in CoL

[TL: Southern Russian Federation] is considered by the authors to be a lightly marked but brightly coloured variety M. phoebe with reduced black markings on both wing surfaces. This nomenclatural association agrees with those of Higgins (1941: 331, plate 14, fig. 9), Tshikolovets (2011: 497), van Oorschot & Coutsis (2014: 60) and Russell & Tennent (2016: 43, note 9), with which the present authors agree.