genus

MellictaBillberg, 1820

species: 9out of 1369% covered
images: 4,629

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

genusMellicta9 species4,629 images
- speciesMellicta alatauica(Staudinger, 1881)
- speciesMellicta asteria(Freyer, 1828)7 images
- speciesMellicta athalia(von Rottemburg, 1775)4,295 images
- speciesMellicta aurelia(Nickerl, 1850)127 images
- speciesMellicta britomartis(Assmann, 1847)23 images
- speciesMellicta centralasiae(Wnukowsky, 1929)3 images
- speciesMellicta deione(Hübner)recorded as Melitaea deione53 images
- speciesMellicta menetriesi(Caradja, 1895)
- speciesMellicta parthenoides(Keferstein, 1851)88 images
- speciesMellicta plotina(Braemer, 1861)8 images
- speciesMellicta rebeli(Wnukowsky, 1929)
- speciesMellicta sikkimensisMoore, 1901
- speciesMellicta varia(Meyer-Dür, 1851)25 images

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)