Yellow Banded Ringlet

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Yellow Banded Ringlet
Museum specimen.Langham and Wheeler collection.Ulster Museum.
Museum specimen.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: Yellow Banded Ringlet
Binomial name
Erebia flavofasciata
Heyne ,1895)

The Yellow Banded Ringlet (Erebia flavofasciata) is a member of the Satyrinae subfamily of Nymphalidae. It is a high mountain butterfly found in a small area of the Alps in Switzerland and Italy.

Larval host plant is unknown. A Swiss subspecies, E. flavofasciata warreni, has been proposed.

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