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Erebia euryale
The Large Ringlet (Erebia euryale) is a member of the Nymphalidae family. It's a mid-altitude alpine species. It lives in spruce forest clearings and damp meadows within these. A separate lowland subspecies occurs in Russia.
Swiss alps, grassland with flowers
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Thanks for the information bayucca
Please, join the new mission of European butterflies and moths and post all your corresponding spottings. We need a lot of people which would join the group to make it global! Thanks and best regards from Switzerland!
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You're welcome Palaimon. If you're happy with the last suggestion by KarenL and myself you can update your spotting by clicking on Edit this spotting and change the common name and scientific name. The German common name is welcome if you can find it!
:-) Karen! To complete the picture there is another similar ringlet flying in this area, the Piedmont ringlet, but the match is not as good as with de Prunner's Ringlet...
Hi Palaimon! The point I was making is that your butterfly seems to be missing the checkered fringes which are found on Erebia euryale. This one could be a fit:
http://www.eurobutterflies.com/species_p...
There are a lot of butterflies in the genus Erebia flying in the Alps, and they can be tricky to identify without direct observation.
The only other ringlet I can find that seems to match the ring pattern is de Prunner's Ringlet - Erebia triaria
http://www.eurobutterflies.com/species_p...
Beautiful! The large ringlet is supposed to have checkered fringes though?
http://www.eurobutterflies.com/species_p...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erebia_eury...
There are more in the genus Erebia thay may fit; I will look later but anybody feel free to follow up on my comment.
Spotted on Jun 30, 2011
Submitted on Oct 17, 2011
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