Larche ringlet

Larche ringlet
	Langham and Wheeler collection - Ulster Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Erebia
Species:	E. scipio
Binomial name
	Erebia scipio; (Boisduval, 1832)

The Larche ringlet (Erebia scipio) is a member of the subfamily Satyrinae of the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is a high-mountain butterfly found in the Alps of France and Italy.

Description in Seitz

E. scipio Bsd. (37b). Rather large, the wings narrow and elongate, the distal margin but little curved. The russet-red band of the forewing is interrupted by the veins, being costally rather broad and narrowing posteriorly. There are anteriorly 2 equal-sized white-centred ocelli standing close together and being followed by 2 additional small black ocelli wliich have likewise white pupils. On the underside these last two are frequently absent or are represented by simple black dots. The band of the hindwing consists of 3 -4 elongate russet-red spots, which have but rarely small ocelli. On the underside the forewing is russet-red in the male, and russet -yellow in the female, the costal and distal margins being grey- brown in the male and white-grey in the female. The ocelli as above. The hindwing beneath is dark brown in the male, sometimes somewhat paler towards the outer margin, being uniformly white-grey without any markings in the female. In the Basses Alpes, for instance at Digne in South France.[2]

References

"Erebia Dalman, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Eiffinger, G. in Seitz. A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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

[2] Eiffinger, G. in Seitz. A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.