The genome sequence of the Nickerl's Fritillary, <i>Melitaea aurelia</i> Nickerl, 1850 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

We present a genome assembly from a female specimen of <i>Melitaea aurelia</i> (Nickerl's Fritillary; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). The assembly contains two haplotypes with total lengths of 595.21 megabases and 565.99 megabases. Most of haplotype 1 (99.72%) is scaffolded into 31 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome. Haplotype 2 was assembled to scaffold level. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 15.17 kilobases.