Black ringlet

Black ringlet
Museum specimens.Langham and Wheeler collection.Ulster Museum.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Erebia
Species: E. melas
Binomial name
Erebia melas
(Herbst ,1796)

The black ringlet (Erebia melas) is a member of the Satyrinae subfamily of Nymphalidae. It is a high-altitude butterfly found in Albania, former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania.

Adults are on wing from July to September.

The larvae feed on Festuca ovina and possibly other grasses. It overwinters in the larval stage.


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