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Mellicta athalia sicula (Glanville Fritillary)

Synonyms: Melitaea sicula (heterotypic); Melitaea siculapinguis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  .202 grams
Litter Size [1]  150

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Aeshna cyanea (Southern Hawker Dragonfly)[2]
Chrysopa perla (Perly Green Lacewing)[2]
Eurydema dominulus[2]
Formica polyctena (European red wood ant)[2]
Misumena vatia (flower spider)[2]

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Ajuga reptans (common bugle)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Heritability of dispersal rate and other life history traits in the Glanville fritillary butterfly, M Saastamoinen, Heredity (2008) 100, 39–46
♦ 2Ecology of Commanster
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0