• Local names

• Language	Vernacular name
  Armenian	Վեդիական մելիթեա
  English	Turkmen Fritillary
  Türkçe	Türkmen Ýparhaný
  Русский	Шашечница ведийская

• Melitaea turkmanica is a member of the clade Melitaea phoebe:

• Species	Author
  Melitaea aetherie	(Hübner, 1826)
  Melitaea collina	Lederer, 1861
  Melitaea consulis	Wiltshire, 1941
  Melitaea gina	Higgins, 1941
  Melitaea kuchi	Wyatt, 1961
  Melitaea ornata	(Christoph, 1893)
  Melitaea phoebe	(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
  Melitaea pseudornata	Muñoz Sariot & Sánchez Mesa, 2019
  Melitaea pseudosibina	Alberti, 1969
  Melitaea punica	Oberthür, 1876
  Melitaea scotosia	Butler, 1878
  Melitaea sibina	Alphéraky, 1881
  Melitaea turkmanica	(Higgins, 1940)
  Melitaea yakovlevi	Kolesnichenko, 2005

• Links

• Language	Website	Authors
  	Butterfly Conservation Armenia
  	Lepiforum e. V.
  	Russian insects	Ilya Osipov

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