How about this

[Paul]

Thought I'd show this specimen which seems to be a bright eyed ringlet, with rather more emphasis on the "eyed" than usual!!




Same individual.. I've never seen one like this, are they common??

[Roger Gibbons]

I've seen them in the Pyrenees where they seem to be the predominant form, if not the only form. I think they are the subspecies spodia form pacula.

[Paul]

Ah.. thanks.. there were many, many more routine ones than this, which really stood out at the time

[Padfield]

In the Val the you see every gradation from really very dark with just two obscured spots in the apex of the forewing, to your seriously 'bright-eyed' form.

This picture is a video frame (I didn't get a real digital camera until 2005). I remember at the time being quite bowled over by this specimen!



Guy