| Large Ringlet (Erebia euryale (Esper, 1805)) |
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Scientific name: Erebia euryale (Esper, 1805) Common name: Large Ringlet French name: Moiré frange-pie Order: Lepidoptera Suborder: Rhopalocera Family: Nymphalidae Subfamily: Satyrinae Wingspan: 42-46 mm. Biotope: Open woodlands and neighbouring meadows between altitudes of 500 metres and 2000 metres. Geographic area: Mountains of southern Europe, central Europe and Asia, from the north of Spain to Mongolia. Flight time: June to August. Number of generations : The development cycle lasts two years. The Large Ringlet over winters one first time at the egg state and a second times at the caterpillar state. Caterpillar: Pinkish grey with a dark dorsal line. Host plant: Various Graminae. |
The Large Ringlet is a rather variable species which shows a bicolour fringe, dark brown and white. The upper side of the wings is dark brown with a broad post discal orange band on the fore wings and on the hind wings. The post discal band on the fore wings bears three or four eyespots with a white centre on females and often smaller on males. The post discal band on the hind wings bears three eyespots. The under side of the fore wings is similar to the upper side. The under side of the hind wing is brown with a white pointed-shaped marking in the post discal area. On females, this marking is on the edge of a broad pale post discal band which is white on the costal half facing the base and very pale brown on the outer side. |
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You can clearly see the bicolour fringe and, on the under side of the hind wings, a pale post discal band with a pointed extension toward the base of the wing. So this one is a female Large Ringlet. |
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Telling apart butterflies of the Erebia genus requires an upper side view and an under side view. So we will stay at Erebia sp. with only this picture. I have put this picture on the Large Ringlet page because I have observed the above specimen at about the same place. However we do not see any bicolour fringe. Notice that this butterfly is rather old and the fringe may be gone. |
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Other non-identified Ringlet because of the lack of an under side view. |
André Bon April 2017