Description: In the search for minerals, this butterfly was liking the sweat of my feet! Phylum: Arthropoda (arthropods, Gliederfüßer) Subphylum: Hexapoda BLAINVILLE, 1816 Class: Insecta (insects, Insekten) Subclass: Pterygota (Fluginsekten) Infraclass: Neoptera MARTYNOV, 1923 Order: Lepidoptera LINNAEUS, 1758 (butterflies & moths, Schmetterlinge) Suborder: Glossata Infraorder: Heteroneura Superfamily: Papilionoidea Family: Nymphalidae RAFINESQUE, 1815 (brushfooted butterflies, Edelfalter) Subfamily: Nymphalinae RAFINESQUE, 1815 Tribus: Melitaeini (Scheckenfalter) Subtribus: Melitaeina NEWMAN, 1870 Genus: Melitaea FABRICIUS, 1807 possibly Melitaea diamina LANG, 1789 (False Heath Fritillary, Baldrian-Scheckenfalter) [det „Fozzy“, 2012, based on photos] more info:
www.pyrgus.de/Melitaea_diamina.html NE-Slovakia, Slovak Paradise (Slovak: Slovenský raj) National Park, vic Cingov, ca. 600m asl., 24.06.2012 IMG_1182. Date: 24 June 2012, 15:16. Source:
Baldrian-Scheckenfalter (Nymphalidae: Melitaea diamina). Author:
gbohne from Berlin, Germany.