White speck ringlet

White speck ringlet
As E. arete, a junior homonym of the valid name. From the Langham and Wheeler collection at the 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.[1]

The wingspan is 26–32 mm.

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

References

  1. "Erebia Dalman, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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