• Melitaea balbina is a member of the clade Melitaea minerva:

• Species	Author
  Melitaea asteroida	Staudinger, 1881
  Melitaea balba	(Evans, 1912)
  Melitaea balbina	Tytler, 1926
  Melitaea cassandra	Kolesnichenko & Churkin, 2001
  Melitaea elisabethae	Avinoff, 1910
  Melitaea ludmilla	Churkin, Kolesnichenko & Tuzov, 2000
  Melitaea minerva	Staudinger, 1881
  Melitaea palamedes	Grum-Grshimailo, 1890
  Melitaea pallas	Staudinger, 1886
  Melitaea solona	Alphéraky, 1881
  Melitaea sultanensis	(Staudinger, 1886)
  Melitaea turanica	Erschoff, 1874

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