Melitaea ninae

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| taxon = Melitaea ninae

| authority = (Sheljuzhko, 1935)[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/nymphalinae/melitaea/ "Melitaea ninae, 1935"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

| synonyms = *Melitaea rosea Higgins, 1938

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Melitaea ninae is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in a restricted area of western Tian-Shan.{{cite journal |last1=Leneveu |first1= J|last2= Chichvarkhin|first2= A|date=2009 |title=Varying rates of diversification in the genus Melitaea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) during the past 20 million years |url=http://ns340113.ip-5-196-79.eu:7080/images/3_programmes/papillons/biblio/35.pdf |journal= Biological Journal of the Linnean Society|volume= 97|issue=2|pages=346–361 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01208.x |access-date=April 18, 2023}}

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Category:Butterflies described in 1935

Category:Melitaea

Category:Butterflies of Asia

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