Erebia mancinus

Erebia mancinus, the taiga alpine, is a member of the subfamily Satyrinae of the family Nymphalidae. It lives in subarctic North America from Labrador, northern Quebec, and northern Ontario, through the northern Prairie Provinces, northern British Columbia, and the interior of the Northwest Territories to Yukon and Alaska. It also ranges south in the mountains as far as Banff, Alberta. The habitat consists of black spruce-sphagnum bogs.

Taiga alpine
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Erebia
Species:
E. mancinus
Binomial name
Erebia mancinus

The wingspan is 35–43 mm. The upperside is brown black and the forewings have four submarginal black spots surrounded by yellow orange. The underside is grey brown. The forewings are reddish with four to five black submarginal spots and the hindwings have a conspicuous white spot beyond the end of the cell.[2] Adults are on wing in late June and July.[3]

The larvae probably feed on sedges or grasses.

Similar species

References
  1. "Erebia Dalman, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. BAMONA
  3. Taiga alpine (Erebia mancinus), Butterflies of Canada


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