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A climate-related shift in the range boundaries of the western–central Eurasian subboreal species Melanargia russiae in the Ural region from the northern forest-steppe zone to pine–birch forests was found. Morphological variation of M. russiae wings from the boundary northern populations and populations from the main part of the range in the Urals were studied. The results of a complex analysis of the morphological traits (size, wing shape, and wing pattern eyespots) confirm the hypothesis that the local population formed in the south of Sverdlovsk oblast and contradict the hypothesis of the migratory origin of M. russiae imago.
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Original Russian Text © E.Yu. Zakharova, A.O. Shkurikhin, T.S. Oslina, 2017, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2017, No. 5, pp. 567–582.
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Zakharova, E.Y., Shkurikhin, A.O. & Oslina, T.S. Morphological variation of Melanargia russiae (Esper, 1783) (Lepidoptera, Satyridae) from the main part of the range and in case of its expansion to the north under climate change conditions. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 10, 488–501 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425517050146
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