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Almond-eyed Ringlet

Erebia alberganus

e-ruh-BEE-uh al-bur-GAY-nuss

Checklist Number
59.0081

Almond-eyed Ringlet

Erebia alberganus

e-ruh-BEE-uh al-bur-GAY-nuss

Checklist Number
59.0081


A single specimen of this species was found in The King Collection at the University of Glasgow, among many specimens of Mountain Ringlet (King collected between 1880 and 1914). Half of the specimens were labelled, all coming from the mountains east of Bridge of Orchy, Argyllshire in Scotland.

This species was first defined in Prunner (1798) as shown here (type locality: Piedmont, Italy).

 
Family:NymphalidaeRafinesque, 1815
Subfamily:SatyrinaeBoisduval, 1833
Tribe:ErebiiniTutt, 1896
Genus:ErebiaDalman, 1816
Subgenus:  
Species:alberganus(Prunner, 1798)