• Local names

• Language	Vernacular name
  English	Desert Fritillary
  Français	Mélitée de l'érémial
  ייִדיש	נמפית מדבר

• Melitaea deserticola is a member of the clade Melitaea didyma:

• Species	Author
  Melitaea abyssinica	Oberthür, 1909
  Melitaea acraeina	(Staudinger, 1886)
  Melitaea agar	Oberthür, 1886
  Melitaea ala	Staudinger, 1881
  Melitaea alraschid	Higgins, 1941
  Melitaea ambrisia	Higgins, 1935
  Melitaea arduinna	(Esper, 1783)
  Melitaea athene	Staudinger, 1881
  Melitaea avinovi	Sheljuzhko, 1914
  Melitaea casta	(Kollar, [1848])
  Melitaea chitralensis	Moore, 1901
  Melitaea deserticola	Oberthür, 1909
  Melitaea devyatkini	Kolesnichenko, 2018
  Melitaea didyma	(Esper, 1778)
  Melitaea didymina	Staudinger, 1886
  Melitaea didymoides	Eversmann, 1847
  Melitaea enarea	Fruhstorfer, [1917]
  Melitaea fergana	Staudinger, 1882
  Melitaea infernalis	Grum-Grshimailo, 1891
  Melitaea interrupta	Kolenati, 1846
  Melitaea jitka	Weiss & Major, 2000
  Melitaea kotshubeji	(Sheljuzhko, 1929)
  Melitaea latonigena	Eversmann, 1847
  Melitaea lunulata	Staudinger, 1901
  Melitaea lutko	Evans, 1932
  Melitaea meherparvari	Carbonell, 2007
  Melitaea mimetica	Higgins, 1940
  Melitaea mixta	Evans, 1912
  Melitaea nadezhdae	Sheljuzhko, 1912
  Melitaea robertsi	(Butler, 1880)
  Melitaea romanovi	Grum-Grshimailo, 1891
  Melitaea sarvistana	Wiltshire, 1941
  Melitaea saxatilis	Christoph, 1873
  Melitaea shandura	Evans, 1924
  Melitaea sutschana	Staudinger, 1892
  Melitaea trivia	(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
  Melitaea yuenty	Oberthür, 1886

• Links

• Language	Website	Authors
  	African Butterfly Database
  	euroButterflies	Matt Rowling
  	Lepiforum e. V.
  	Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa	Paolo Mazzei

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