CONTRIBUTION TO THE TAXONOMIUC STATUS OF MELITAEA ALA KOTSHUBEJI SHELJUZHKO, 1929, MELITAEA DIDYMA ENAREA FRUHSTORFER, 1916, AND MELITAEA ENAREA GROMENKOI KOLESNICHENKO, 1999 AND THE QUESTIONS OF SUBSPECIFIC SYSTEMATICS WITHIN THIS GROUP (LEPIDOPTERA: NYM
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https://doi.org/10.33910/1999-4079-2016-8-1-64-72Keywords:
taxonomiuc status, systematics, Melitaea, Lepidoptera, NymphalidaeAbstract
In the present message on the basis of morphology and molecular data we rearrange status of some taxa of Melitaea. The taxon enarea Fruhstorfer, 1916 is a subspecies of M. mixta Evans, 1912. The taxon kotshubeji Sheljuzhko, 1929 is a subspecies of M. ala Staudinger, 1881. We propose the following nomenclatural acts: Melitaea ala kotshubeji Sheljuzhko, 1929, stat.rest., Melitaea ala kugarti Kolesnichenko, 1999, stat.rev., Melitaea ala bundeli Kolesnichenko, 1999, stat.rev., Melitaea mixta enarea Fruhstorfer, 1916, stat.rev., Melitaea mixta permuta Kolesnichenko, 1999, stat.rev., Melitaea mixta ishkashima Sheljuzhko, 1929, stat.rev. The taxa gromenkoi Kolesnichenko, 1999 and pallidoptera Korb, 2010 are belonging to the species M. Turkestanica Sheljuzhko, 1929: Melitaea turkestanica gromenkoi Kolesnichenko, 1999, stat.rev., Melitaea turkestanica pallidoptera Korb, 2010, stat.rev.
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Kolesnichenko K.A., 1999. A review of the East Palaearctic taxa of the Melitaea didyma (Esper, 1779)-group 1. The M. ala Staudinger, 1881-M.chitralensis Moore, 1901-complex (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Atalanta. Bd. 30. S. 87-117.
Leneveu J., Chichvarkhin A., Wahlberg N., 2009. Varying rates of diversification in the genus Melitaea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) during the past 20 million years. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. Vol. 97. P. 346-361.
Lukhtanov V.A., Sourakov A., Zakharov E.V., Hebert P.D.N., 2009. DNA barcoding Central Asian butterflies: increasing geographical dimension does not significantly reduce the success of species identification. Molecular Ecology Resources. 2009, N. 9. P. 1302-1310.
Pazhenkova E.A., Zakharov E.V., Lukhtanov V.A., 2015. DNA barcoding reveals twelve lineages with properties of phylogenetic and biological species within Melitaea didyma sensu lato (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). ZooKeys. N 538. P. 35-46.
Sheljuzhko L., 1929. Einige Bemerkungen uber Melitaea ala Stgr. Mitt. Mьnch. entomol. Ges. Bd. 19. S. 363-370.
Tamura K., Dudley J., Nei M., Kumar S., 2007. MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software version 4.0. Molecular biology and evolution. Vol. 24. P. 1596-1599.
van Oorschot H., Coutsis J.G., 2014. The genus Melitaea Fabricius, 1807. Taxonomy and systematics with special reference to the male genitalia (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Nymphalinae). Pardubice: Tshikolovets Publications. 360 p.
Wahlberg N., Zimmermann M., 2000. Pattern of phylogenetic relationships among Members of the tribe Melitaeini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Cladistics. Vol. 16. P. 347-363.
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