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The external morphology of the egg (including the chorion), the last instar larva, and the pupa of Melitaea robertsi Butler, 1880 from East Iran is described; data on the host plant of the species are given.
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Original Russian Text © K.A. Kolesnichenko, 2018, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2018, Vol. 97, No. 9, pp. 1121–1126.
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Kolesnichenko, K.A. Early Stages and Biology of Melitaea robertsi Butler, 1880 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Entmol. Rev. 98, 1058–1063 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873818080122
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