Mellicta menetriesi (Caradja, 1895) (= Melitaea menetriesi; = Mellicta centralasiae Wnukowsky, 1929; = Melitaea centralasiae; = Melitaea mongolica Staudinger, 1892).
A pair making courtship.
Range: Siberia east of the upper Ob' River Basin, Amurland, Mongolia, NE Asia, Kamchatka.
ssp.: centralasiae Wnukowsky, 1929 (= mongolica Staudinger, 1892); range: Siberia, NE to the Central Yakutia.
Highland dwarf birch (Betula rotundifolia) tundras on a ledge of the southerm principle slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulets, 2300 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West SIberia, Russia. 15th July 1998. O. Kosterin.