Subspecies
• Oeneis melissa melissa (Newfoundland, Labrador) • Oeneis melissa also (Boisduval, [1833]) (Polar Urals, Arctic Asia, Taymur, Chukot Peninsula, Kamchatka, Wrangel Island) • Oeneis melissa orientalis Kurentzov, 1970 (eastern Yakutia, Magadan) • Oeneis melissa daizetsuzana Matsumura, 1926 (Japan) • Oeneis melissa semidea (Say, 1828) (New Hampshire) • Oeneis melissa semplei Holland, 1931 (Quebec, inner Labrador, Hudson Bay) • Oeneis melissa assimilis Butler, 1868 (Northwest Territories) • Oeneis melissa gibsoni Holland, 1931 (Alaska, Yukon, northern British Columbia) • Oeneis melissa beanii Elwes, 1893 (Alberta, British Columbia, Washington, Montana, Wyoming) • Oeneis melissa lucilla Barnes & McDunnough, 1918 • Oeneis melissa karae Kusnezov, 1925 (polar tundra of northern Siberia) ==References==