Styrian Ringlet

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Styrian Ringlet
Specimens from the Langham and Wheeler collection, Ulster Museum.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Erebia
Species: E. stirius
Binomial name
Erebia stirius
(Godart, [1824])
Synonyms

Erebia nerine Freyer, 1831
Erebia styrius (Godart, [1824]) (lapsus)

The Styrian Ringlet (Erebia stirius, often misspelled "styrius") is a member of the Satyrinae subfamily of Nymphalidae. It is a mountain butterfly found in the Austrian and Italian Alps, Croatia and Slovenia. Etymology-Styria is a state of Austria.

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