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Maniola telmessia 
Female Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Nymphalidae Genus: Maniola Species: M. telmessia Binomial name Maniola telmessia
(Zeller, 1847)[1]Synonyms - Hipparchia telmessia Zeller, 1847
The Turkish Meadow Brown (Maniola telmessia) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found on several Greek islands in the Aegean Sea and from there through Asia Minor to south-western Iran.
Adults are on wing from April to October in one generation per year. In hot summers, adults diapause. Mating takes place before this diapause, but the eggs are laid after.
The larvae fee don various grasses.
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