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Erebia
Erebia is a Holarctic genus of brush-footed butterflies, family Nymphalidae. Most of the about 90–100 species (see also below) are dark brown or black in color, with reddish-brown to orange or more rarely yellowish wing blotches or bands. These usually bear black spots within, which sometimes have white center spots.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Erebia
subgenusErebia
Large Ringlet
speciesErebia euryale
Common Alpine
speciesErebia epipsodea
Common Brassy Ringlet
speciesErebia cassioides
Magda
subgenusMagda
Lesser Mountain Ringlet
speciesErebia melampus
Autumn Ringlet
speciesErebia neoridas
Marbled Ringlet
speciesErebia montana
Swiss Brassy Ringlet
speciesErebia tyndarus
Yellow-spotted Ringlet
speciesErebia manto
Bright Eyed Ringlet
speciesErebia oeme
Dewy Ringlet
speciesErebia pandrose
Blind Ringlet
speciesErebia pharte
Silky Ringlet
speciesErebia gorge
Colorado Alpine
speciesErebia callias
Pyrenean Brassy Ringlet
speciesErebia rondoui
Mnestra's Ringlet
speciesErebia mnestra
Vidler's Alpine
speciesErebia vidleri
Stygian Ringlet
speciesErebia styx
Chapman's Ringlet
speciesErebia palarica
Theano Alpine
speciesErebia pawloskii
Ottoman Brassy Ringlet
speciesErebia ottomana
Erebia neriene
speciesErebia neriene
Japanese Alpine Ringlet
speciesErebia niphonica
Lapland Ringlet
speciesErebia embla
Theano Alpine
speciesErebia theano
False Mnestra Ringlet
speciesErebia aethiopella
Four-dotted Alpine
speciesErebia youngi
Black Ringlet
speciesErebia melas
Lefébvre's Ringlet
speciesErebia lefebvrei
Sudetan Ringlet
speciesErebia sudetica
Eriphyle Ringlet
speciesErebia eriphyle
Gavarnie Ringlet
speciesErebia gorgone
Styrian Ringlet
speciesErebia stiria
Yellow-banded Ringlet
speciesErebia flavofasciata
de Lesse's Brassy Ringlet
speciesErebia nivalis
Lorkovic's Brassy Ringlet
speciesErebia calcaria
Erebia turanica
speciesErebia turanica
Erebia kefersteinii
speciesErebia kefersteinii
Zapater's Ringlet
speciesErebia zapateri
Spanish Brassy Ringlet
speciesErebia hispania
Rätzer's Ringlet
speciesErebia christi
Larche Ringlet
speciesErebia scipio
Reddish Alpine
speciesErebia lafontainei
Erebia jeniseiensis
speciesErebia jeniseiensis
Scree Alpine
speciesErebia occulta
Arctic Woodland Ringlet
speciesErebia polaris
Erebia iranica
speciesErebia iranica
Erebia mopsos
speciesErebia mopsos
Alpine Ringlet
speciesErebia melancholica
Caucasian Ringlet
speciesErebia graucasica
Erebia stubbendorfii
speciesErebia stubbendorfii
White Speck Ringlet
speciesErebia claudina
Bulgarian Ringlet
speciesErebia orientalis
False Dewy Ringlet
speciesErebia sthennyo
White-spotted Ringlet
speciesErebia bubastis
Hewitson's Ringlet
speciesErebia hewitsonii
Nicholl's Ringlet
speciesErebia rhodopensis
Erebia psathura
speciesErebia psathura
Erebia scoparia
speciesErebia scoparia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 62382.