Butterfly Melitaea(telona)

Melitaea didyma is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae

It is found in Romania, the Balkan Peninsula, Turkey and the Near East,
central Europe from north Africa to Poland and Greece. The males are usually of a very rich red that is easily seen from a distance and differentiated from the other Fritillaries. From north Spain to Greece the subspecies meridionalis flies. This has very dusky females. Elsewhere other named forms fly with differences in size, ground colour and degree of variation in orange/ yellow ground colour.