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A New Melitaea Species from the didyma-Group from Southern Mongolia, with Notes on the Intraspecific Structure of M. didymoides Eversmann, 1847 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)

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A new species, Melitaea devyatkini sp. n., closely related to M. didymoides, is described from southern Mongolia. The fine structure of the egg chorion of the new species is studied and a comparative morphological characteristic of M. didymoides from different parts of its range is given.

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Original Russian Text © K.A. Kolesnichenko, 2018, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2018, Vol. 97, No. 12, pp. 1485–1497.

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Kolesnichenko, K.A. A New Melitaea Species from the didyma-Group from Southern Mongolia, with Notes on the Intraspecific Structure of M. didymoides Eversmann, 1847 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Entmol. Rev. 98, 1329–1341 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873818090117

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