Melitaea

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title: Melitaea
text: Melitaea is a genus of brush-footed butterflies. They are here placed in the tribe Melitaeini of subfamily Nymphalinae; some authors elevate this tribe to subfamily rank. As delimited here, Melitaea includes the genus Mellicta, making the subtribe Melitaeina monotypic. For long, it was believed that Mellicta was a junior objective synonym of Melitaea, sharing the same type species. This was in error, however; the type species of Mellicta is actually the heath fritillary, making the two taxa juni
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description: Genus of butterflies
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitaea
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date modified: 2023-10-25T19:39:24Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Melitaea_arcesia_chuana_-_Seitz.png","width":550,"height":400}
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