Melanargia arge

Italian marbled white
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Satyrini
Genus: Melanargia
Species: M. arge
Binomial name
Melanargia arge
(Sulzer, 1776)

The Italian marbled white, Melanargia arge, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

It is an endemic species found only in the southern half of Italy and the Eastern half of the Italian island of Sicily.

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