White Speck Ringlet

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White Speck Ringlet
Museum specimens.arete is a Junior homonym the valid name (next most senior) is claudina.Langham and Wheeler collection.Ulster Museum.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Erebia
Species: E. claudina
Binomial name
Erebia claudina
(Borkhausen ,1780)

The White Speck Ringlet (Erebia claudina) is a member of the Satyrinae subfamily of Nymphalidae. It is a high altitude butterfly found only in the Austrian Alps.

The wingspan is 26–32 mm.

The larvae feed on Nardus stricta, Deschampsia cespitosa and Poa trivalis.


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