Black Ringlet

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Black Ringlet
Museum specimens.Langham and Wheeler collection.Ulster Museum.
Museum specimens.Langham and Wheeler collection.Ulster Museum.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked) Rhopalocera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Genus: Erebia
Species: E. melas
Binomial name
Erebia melas
(Herbst ,1796)

The Black Ringlet (Erebia melas) is a member of the Satyrinae subfamily of Nymphalidae. It is a high altitude butterfly found in Albania, former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania.

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