Black ringlet

Black ringlet
male in Bulgaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Nymphalidae
Genus:Erebia
Species: E. melas
Binomial name
Erebia melas
(Herbst, 1796)

The black ringlet (Erebia melas) is a member of the Satyrinae subfamily of the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is a high-altitude butterfly found in Albania, former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania.

Adults are on wing from July to September.

The larvae feed on Festuca ovina and possibly other grasses. It overwinters in the larval stage.

References

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


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