Small Mountain Ringlet

Small Mountain Ringlet
Mountain Ringlet
(Canillo, Andorra)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Erebia
Species: E. epiphron
Binomial name
Erebia epiphron
(Knoch, 1783)

The Small Mountain Ringlet (Erebia epiphron) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is Great Briatin's only true alpine species of butterfly. It lives in mat grass near bogs and springs and is also associated with bilberry, tormentil and heath bedstraw.[1]

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