Melitaea asteria

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Little fritillary

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Melitaea
Species:	M. asteria
Binomial name
*Melitaea asteria* (Freyer, 1828)^{[ verification needed ]}

Melitaea asteria, the little fritillary, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.^[1] It is found in the Alps of Europe.

The larva feeds on Plantago alpina .

References

↑ "Melitaea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

External links

Leps It

Taxon identifiers
Melitaea asteria	Wikidata: Q6812935 Wikispecies: Mellicta asteria BioLib: 51618 CoL: 936WR EUNIS: 90940 Fauna Europaea: 441610 Fauna Europaea (new): ebf7d78e-5367-427b-82ba-7e19b90efa18 GBIF: 5792088 iNaturalist: 105558 IUCN: 173251 MaBENA: MelitAster Observation.org: 80876 Open Tree of Life: 167475

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