Piedmont Ringlet

Taxobox


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image_caption = Museum specimens."Papilio stygne" Ochsenheimer, 1807 is a junior synonym of "meolans", de Prunner1798.Langham and Wheeler collection.Ulster Museum.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Rhopalocera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia = Satyrinae
genus = "Erebia"
species = Piedmont Ringlet
binomial = "Erebia meolans"
binomial_authority = (de Prunner, 1798)

The Piedmont Ringlet ("Erebia meolans") is a member of the Nymphalidae family.It is an Alpine butterfly.

External links

* [http://www.faunaeur.org/distribution_table.php Fauna Europaea] Distribution
* [http://www.lepiforum.de/cgi-bin/lepiwiki.pl?Erebia_Meolans Lepiforum] In German but correctly identified insects in the excellent photos.