Mellicta ambigua Menetries, 1859 (= Mellicta athalia ambigua; = Melitaea athalia ambigua; = Melitaea ambigua).
Range: South Siberia eastwards of the East Sayan Mts., the Amurland, E Mongolia, NE China, the Sakhalin, Korea, Japan.
ssp.: kenteana Seitz, 1909; range: Transbaikalia, E Mongolia.
A male; wings closed.
An open pine forest on the hill just north of the Chita City, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 28th June 1996. O. Kosterin.