Small Mountain Ringlet

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Mountain Ringlet
Museum specimens.French Alps.
Museum specimens.French Alps.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Erebia
Species: E. epiphron
Binomial name
Erebia epiphron
(Knoch, 1783)

The Small Mountain Ringlet (Erebia epiphron) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is a mid-altitude alpine species. It lives in pine forest clearings and dry meadows within these. A separate subspecies occurs in Britain.


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