Fritillaries from Southern France.
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2015 9:46 pm
Those of you who read my holiday to France series will remember that there were some difficulties in getting ID's for the photos of Melitaea Fritillary species that were very abundant out there. For my part I decided to list them all as 'Heath' Fritillary Melitaea 'athalia', but was aware that other closely related species may have been in with them. In my second post Guy and Roger debated on the possibility of a False Heath (diamina (vernetensis)) and also Meadow (parthenoides) was also suggested in two of the pictures.
Most of the butterflies submitted were of upper-sides only and Guy stated that this alone was not sufficient for a conclusive ID. Sadly I have very few underside pics to show and none with both upper and lower for the same butterfly. However I've trawled through and selected some more pictures and I live in hope that some may be useful. Many of those below have already been shown in the postings but by putting them up again alongside others it may allow for easier comparison.
As there are a lot of pictures I'm going to do them in two postings.
Thanks in advance for your consideration
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Phil
Most of the butterflies submitted were of upper-sides only and Guy stated that this alone was not sufficient for a conclusive ID. Sadly I have very few underside pics to show and none with both upper and lower for the same butterfly. However I've trawled through and selected some more pictures and I live in hope that some may be useful. Many of those below have already been shown in the postings but by putting them up again alongside others it may allow for easier comparison.
As there are a lot of pictures I'm going to do them in two postings.
Thanks in advance for your consideration
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Phil