But not all researchers are convinced that even the Glanville fritillary necessarily lives by the rules of metapopulations.

The Glanville Fritillary butterfly is named after her.

The Glanville Fritillary is a medium-sized orange, black and white "checkerspot" butterfly inhabiting open meadows.

The Glanville Fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family.

The Glanville Fritillary is a highly restricted species in the UK being confined to the south coast of the Isle of Wight.

For long, it was believed that Mellicta was a junior objective synonym of Melitaea, sharing the same type species (the Glanville Fritillary, M. cinxia).

The Glanville Fritillary inhabits open grassland throughout Europe (except much of Great Britain, Scandinavia, and southern Spain) and temperate Asia.

The Glanville Fritillary butterfly's distribution in the United Kingdom is largely restricted to the edges of the crumbling cliffs of the Isle of Wight.

However, by the middle of the 19th century the Glanville Fritillary was known only from the Isle of Wight and the coast of Kent between Folkestone and Sandwich.

The Glanville Fritillary is named for Lady Eleanor Glanville, an eccentric 17th and 18th century English butterfly enthusiast - a very unusual occupation for a woman at that time.

Researchers note, however, that while the Glanville fritillary appears to function as constellations of small, frequently regenerating populations, there are many other arrangements and dynamics under which populations in a species can and do function.

Unlike the Glanville fritillary, which seems to require preservation of whole networks, the Bay checkerspot would appear to require instead the preservation of the one key source population to maintain itself in the habitat.

In the UK the Glanville Fritillary occurs only on soft undercliff and chine grassland and the slopes above where its main larval foodplant Plantago lanceolata occurs in abundance on sheltered, south facing slopes.

The Glanville Fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family.