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Melitaea didyma

Family: NymphalidaeGenus: Melitaeaheimisch in Deutschland

heimisch in Deutschland

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Plants

visited

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Interactions

documented

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Host plants

known

About this species

A butterfly of the Nymphalidae family, recorded in Great Britain.

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Plant-based food

Annual cycle

Adults fly July to August. The species overwinters as a larva.

Merkmale

Körper

Wingspan

3.7 cm

Ernährung & Verhalten

Food

polyphag

Generationen/Jahr

multivoltine

Overwintering

larva

Scientific profile

Melitaea didyma is a multivoltine butterfly. The overwintering stage is the larva. Adults are active during July and August.

Host plants

11 plants serve as food for the larvae

Plantago lanceolataStachys recta subsp. rectaPetasites spuriusLinaria vulgarisVeronica persicaValeriana officinalisPlantago major subsp. majorHelianthus annuusTrifolium montanumArtemisia campestris subsp. lednicensisDigitalis obscura

Visited plants

19 plants are visited by this species

Digitalis purpureaEryngium campestreCentaurea jaceaCentaurea nigrescens subsp. nigrescensCrepis alpestrisLythrum salicariaOdontites luteusClinopodium vulgare Jacobaea vulgaris Centaurea scabiosa Carlina vulgaris Cornus sanguinea Matricaria chamomilla Senecio inaequidens Cota tinctoria Sonchus asperAnthyllis vulneraria subsp. polyphyllaEupatorium cannabinumMelampyrum pratense subsp. engleri

Sources & Data Origin

•TraitCH — CC BY 4.0TraitCH 2.0 contributors; imported as source-preserving NaturKompass taxon evidence.

•Interaktionsdaten via GloBI (CC-BY 4.0)

•Neff et al. (2025) — Swiss Moth Traits, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14506883 (CC BY)

•GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — GBIF Secretariat (2024), DOI: 10.15468/39omei (CC BY 4.0)

•Seifert & Fiedler (2023) — Macroecological patterns in European butterflies unveil strong interrelations between larval diet breadth, latitudinal range size, and voltinism [Dataset]. Dryad, DOI: 10.5061/dryad.9zw3r22mp (CC0)