genus

MelitaeaFabricius, 1807

Doncellas

species
33out of 6948% covered
images
3,726

Counts cover images whose name resolved to a species accepted by Catalogue of Life, so they can be lower than the totals on the Collections page. Totals and percentages compare them with the accepted families, genera and species Catalogue of Life places in this taxon.

Species in this genus

Morphospace

Variation in species coloration mapped onto the latent space. Each species is represented by two points, one for its dorsal side and one for its ventral side. The farther apart the dorsal and ventral points are, the more different the two sides are in coloration.

Classification

  • genusMelitaea33 species3,726 images
    • speciesMelitaea abyssinicaOberthür, 19091 image
    • speciesMelitaea acentriaLukhtanov, 20172 images
    • speciesMelitaea acraeinaStaudinger, 18862 images
    • speciesMelitaea aetherieHübner12 images
    • speciesMelitaea agarOberthür, 18864 images
    • speciesMelitaea alaStaudinger, 18818 images
    • speciesMelitaea ambrisiaHiggins, 1935
    • speciesMelitaea amitabhaBelter, 1944
    • speciesMelitaea arcesiaBremer, 186134 images
    • speciesMelitaea arduinnaEsper, 178315 images
    • speciesMelitaea atheneStaudinger, 18815 images
    • speciesMelitaea avinoviSheljuzhko, 1914
    • speciesMelitaea bellonidesBelter, 1942
    • speciesMelitaea castaKollar, 1850
    • speciesMelitaea chitralensisMoore, 190110 images
    • speciesMelitaea cinxiaLinnaeus, 17582,564 images
    • speciesMelitaea clanchaWright, 1906
    • speciesMelitaea collinaLederer, 18613 images
    • speciesMelitaea delereiHeydemann, 1954
    • speciesMelitaea deserticolaOberthür, 19114 images
    • speciesMelitaea diamina(Lang, 1789)381 images
    • speciesMelitaea dictynnaEsper, 1779
    • speciesMelitaea didyma(Esper, 1780)314 images
    • speciesMelitaea didyminaStaudinger, 18952 images
    • speciesMelitaea didymoidesEversmann, 18477 images
    • speciesMelitaea enochHiggins, 1941
    • speciesMelitaea ferganaStaudinger, 188218 images
    • speciesMelitaea ginaHiggins, 19414 images
    • speciesMelitaea hafizHiggins, 1941
    • speciesMelitaea infernalisGrum-Grshimailo, 18915 images
    • speciesMelitaea jeholanaMatsumura, 1939
    • speciesMelitaea kuchiWyatt, 1961
    • speciesMelitaea leucippeSchneider, 1787
    • speciesMelitaea lutkoEvans, 1932
    • speciesMelitaea magniplagaRöber, 1927
    • speciesMelitaea melicertaPfutzner, 1873
    • speciesMelitaea minervaStaudinger, 188116 images
    • speciesMelitaea montiumBelter, 19345 images
    • speciesMelitaea nekkanaMatsumura, 1939
    • speciesMelitaea pacificaVerity, 1932
    • speciesMelitaea pallasStaudinger, 188612 images
    • speciesMelitaea paludaniClench & Shoumatoff, 1956
    • speciesMelitaea parthenie(Bergstrasser, 1780)
    • speciesMelitaea pavlitzkajanaSheljuzhko, 1943
    • speciesMelitaea pekinensisSeitz, 1908
    • speciesMelitaea perseaKollar, 185012 images
    • speciesMelitaea phoebe[Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775143 images
    • speciesMelitaea pseudoalaSheljuzhko, 1929
    • speciesMelitaea pseudornata
    • speciesMelitaea riloensisZüllich, 1936
    • speciesMelitaea romanoviGrum-Grshimailo, 1891
    • speciesMelitaea sabinaWright, 1906
    • speciesMelitaea saxatilisChristoph, 1873
    • speciesMelitaea scotosiaButler, 187823 images
    • speciesMelitaea septentriorientisVerity, 1930
    • speciesMelitaea shahvaricaKolesnichenko & Kotlobay, 2022
    • speciesMelitaea shanduraEvans, 192410 images
    • speciesMelitaea sibinaAlphéraky, 188216 images
    • speciesMelitaea snyderiSeok, 1936
    • speciesMelitaea sutschanaStaudinger, 18921 image
    • speciesMelitaea tangigharuensisde Freina, 1980
    • speciesMelitaea timandraCoutsis & van Oorschot, 2014
    • speciesMelitaea transcaucasicaTurati, 19219 images
    • speciesMelitaea trivia[Denis & Schiffermüller], 177572 images
    • speciesMelitaea tsonkapaBelter, 1944
    • speciesMelitaea turanicaErschoff, 18747 images
    • speciesMelitaea turkmanicaHiggins, 1940
    • speciesMelitaea yuentyOberthür, 18865 images
    • speciesMelitaea zagrosiToth & Varga, 2011

Linked species have records in the collection. Species in grey are in the Catalogue of Life classification but have no images here yet.

Source: Catalogue of Life (v2026-08-26 XR)