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Woodland ringlet

Erebia medusa

Description:

This species has dark brown wing and feature a series of white-centred black ocelli set within a suffused area of orange towards the outer part of both wings. The markings are repeated on the underside. On pictures are mating butterflies.

Habitat:

Mountain meadow, 1600 m asl, Nature park Velebit

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6 Comments

z2015842641
z2015842641 9 years ago

Красивые бабочки.

The MnMs
The MnMs 9 years ago

Beautiful pair, Jopy!

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 9 years ago

I am glad you found it Jopy! I could not decide between E. medusa and E. oeme. Since you IDed it I've read that E. medusa has brown antennna tips, so I've learned something new. http://www.eurobutterflies.com/species_p...

Jopy
Jopy 9 years ago

Thank you, daniele and Emilie, my field guide says that this is E. medusa as I IDed it... :)

EmilieChich
EmilieChich 9 years ago
DanielePralong
DanielePralong 9 years ago

I'm puzzled by this one Jopy! Great find.

Jopy
Spotted by
Jopy

Croatia

Spotted on Jun 22, 2014
Submitted on Jun 23, 2014

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