Lapland Ringlet

Taxobox


image_caption = Museum specimens.Langham collection.Ulster Museum.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Rhopalocera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia = Satyrinae
genus = "Erebia"
species = Lapland Ringlet
binomial = "Erebia embla"
binomial_authority =(Becklin, 1791)

The Lapland Ringlet ("Erebia embla") is a member of the Satyrinae subfamily of Nymphalidae. It is restricted to sunny patches in very damp spruce and pine forests and forested unmanaged peatlands (and sometimes moors). The larva feeds on various grasses and related plants (such as "Carex") and winters twice. A dry period in the habitat will result in the decline of the species.

There are three subspecies:
*"E. e. embla" Becklin, 1791 – Fennoscandia to East Siberia.
*"E. e. dissimulata" Warren, 1931 – Altai and Sayan Mts.
*"E. e. succulenta" Alphéraky, 1897 – Russian Far East.

References

*Tuzov et al. 1997 "Guide to the butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories". Pensoft, Sofia Moscow).