New subspecies of Melitaea sultanensis Staudinger, 1886, M. elisabethae Avinoff, 1910 and M. robertsi Butler, 1880 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)

Abstract

The paper presents the descriptions of 3 new taxa: Melitaea robertsi hersilia Churkin, Bogdanov et Kolesnichenko, ssp. nova is described from Suusamyr Mts., Tian-Shan (Kyrgyzstan), M. elisabethae tremasovi Churkin, Kolesnichenko et Bogdanov, ssp. nova from Mazorsky Range (Darvaz, Tadjikistan) and M. sultanensis sochivkoi Churkin, Kolesnichenko et Bogdanov, ssp. nova from Gardaniushti Mts. (South Tadjikistan). The holotypes of M. trivia bactriana Shchetkin, 1984 and M. t. chorasana Shchetkin, 1984 are figured for the first time.

Keywords

• melitaea
• zoogeography
• kyrgyzstan
• tajikistan
• taxonomy
• new subspecies
• sultanensis
• robertsi
• elisabethae
• pamirs