Coenonympha tullia
| Large Heath or Common Ringlet | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Coenonympha |
| Species: | C. tullia |
| Binomial name | |
| Coenonympha tullia (Müller, 1764) | |
| Subspecies | |
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The Large Heath[1] or Common Ringlet[2] (Coenonympha tullia) is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It flies in a variety of grassy habitats, including roadsides, woodland edges and clearings, prairies, bogs, and arctic and alpine taiga and tundra.[2] It is a poor flyer, but can sometimes be found along ditches seeking new grounds. It is a holarctic species found in northern Europe and Asia and across North America.[2]
Dorsal view
Subspecies[3][4]
Coenonympha tullia var philoxenus Museum specimens
- C. t. ampelos (W. H. Edwards, 1871) – Northwest Common Ringlet
- C. t. benjamini (McDunnough, 1928) – Prairie Ringlet
- C. t. brenda
- C. t. bosniae (Davenport, 1941)
- C. t. california (Westwood, 1851) – California Ringlet
- C. t. columbiana (McDunnough, 1928) – Ringlet
- C. t. davus (Fabricius, 1777)
- C. t. elko (W. H. Edwards, 1881)
- C. t. elwesi (Davenport, 1941)
- C. t. eryngii (Hy. Edwards, 1877)
- C. t. eunomia (Dornfeld, 1967)
- C. t. furcae (W. Barnes & Benjamin, 1926)
- C. t. gliwa
- C. t. haydenii (W. H. Edwards, 1872) – Hayden's Common Ringlet
- C. t. inornata (W. H. Edwards, 1861) – Inornate Common Ringlet
- C. t. insulanus (McDunnough, 1928) – Vancouver Ringlet
- C. t. kodiak (Edwards 1869) – Kodiak Ringlet
- C. t. mackenziei (D. Davenport, 1936) – Mackenzie's Ringlet
- C. t. mcisaaci (dos Passos, 1935) – McIsaac's Ringlet
- C. t. mixturata (Alphéraky, 1897)
- C. t. mono (Burdick, 1942) – (Common) Ringlet
- C. t. ochracea (W. H. Edwards, 1861) – Ochre (Common) Ringlet
- C. t. polydama (Haworth, 1803)
- C. t. pseudobrenda (Austin & R. Gray, 1998)
- C. t. scotica (Staudinger, 1901)
- C. t. sibirica (Davenport, 1941)
- C. t. subfusca (W. Barnes & Benjamin, 1926)
- C. t. suecica (Hemming, 1936)
- C. t. tullia (Müller, 1764) – Common Ringlet
- C. t. viluiensis (Ménétriés, 1859)
- C. t. yontocket (Porter & Mattoon, 1989) – Yontocket Satyr Ringlet
- C. t. yukonensis (W. Holland, 1900) – Yukon Common Ringlet
Formerly a subspecies:
- Coenonympha nipisiquit (McDunnough, 1939) – Maritime Ringlet
References
- ↑ UK Butterflies
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Common Ringlet, Butterflies of Canada
- ↑ Coenonympha funet.fi
- ↑ Coenonympha, Butterflies of America
- Emmet, A.M., J. Heath et al. (Ed.), 1990. The Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 7 Part 1 (Hesperiidae to Nymphalidae). Harley Books, Colechester, UK. 370p.
- Tomlinson, D. and R. Still, 2002. Britain's Butterflies. WildGuides, Old Basing, UK. 192p.
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- Coenonympha tullia, ARKive - images and video
- Common Ringlet, E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta