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Mellicta britomartis

Assmann's Fritillary

Field Notes

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Cluj, Romania, May 2006

 

Cluj, Romania, June 2006

 

Identification of the difficult Mellicta group by genitalia.

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Peter Rowlings

SE Czech Republic, end June 2001

 

SE Czech Republic, end June 2001

 

Here's a tricky customer. When I was in the extreme SE Czech Republic in 2001 I spent many hours convincing myself this was the M. britomartis. That was the easy part, it was harder convincing myself that it wasn't the very similar species M. aurelia. I was pretty sure it wasn't M. athalia. I'm fairly certain that it is britomartis but I'd like comment on this insect - please e-mail me using e-mail link on top left of the page. I'll not explain why I think it is britomartis in case it influences your thinking!

I found about a dozen of these butterflies on a lovely flowery limestone hillside in an area britomartis is reported from. We were at an altitude of about 300m. They were gliding over the meadow slowly at a height of about 0.5m. It was noticeably dark when in flight, which first attracted my attention.

 

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