Marbled ringlet

Marbled ringlet
Museum specimens of Erebia montana subspecies goante (Esper, 1802). Langham and Wheeler collection. Ulster Museum.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Erebia
Species: E. montana
Binomial name
Erebia montana
de Prunner , 1798)

The marbled ringlet (Erebia montana) is a member of the Satyrinae subfamily of Nymphalidae. It is a high mountain butterfly found in the Alps and Apennines.

Habitat. Montane Festuca grassland. Headwaters of the Moesa in Val Vignun, Switzerland


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