Melanargia arge

{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Italian marbled white

| image = Melanargiaarge.JPG

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| image2 = Melanargia arge - Nature Conservation-001-073-g039.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system=IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=van Swaay, C. |author2=Wynhoff, I. |author3=Wiemers, M. |author4=Katbeh-Bader, A. |author5=Power, A. |author6=Benyamini, D. |author7=Tzirkalli, E. |author8=Balletto, E. |author9=Monteiro, E. |author10=Karaçetin, E. |author11=Franeta, F. |author12=Pe'er, G. |author13=Welch, H. |author14=Thompson, K. |author15=Pamperis, L. |author16=Dapporto, L. |author17=Šašić, M. |author18=López Munguira, M. |author19=Micevski, N. |author20=Dupont, P. |author21=Garcia-Pereira, P. |author22=Moulai, R. |author23=Caruana, R. |author24=Verovnik, R. |author25=Bonelli, S. |author26=Beshkov, S. |date=2015 |title=Melanargia arge |volume=2015 |page=e.T173235A64819130 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-2.RLTS.T173235A64819130.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| taxon = Melanargia arge

| authority = (Sulzer, 1776)

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Melanargia arge, the Italian marbled white, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/melanargia/ "Melanargia Meigen, 1828"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms M. arge Sulz. (= amphitrite Hbn.) (39 f). Above white, only the submarginal lunate line, the two short bands in the centre and at the apex of the cell, and the beautifully blue-centred ocelli being dark — ab. caeca Stgr. is without ocelli; rare among the preceding.Seitz. A. in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren){{PD-notice}}

It is an endemic species found only in the southern half of Italy and the eastern half of the Italian island of Sicily.

It flies in May and June in a single generation in rocky places with abundant flowers.

The caterpillar feeds on grasses.