Yellow-banded ringlet
species of insect
The yellow-banded ringlet (Erebia flavofasciata) is a member of the subfamily Satyrinae of the family Nymphalidae. It is a high mountain butterfly found in a small area of the Alps in Switzerland and Italy.
Description in Seitz
E. flavofasciata Heyne (36 b). This interesting Erebia has only lately been discovered. Lieutenant-Colonel von Nolte obtained the first specimens in July 1893 in the Alps of Tessin in the Campolungo-Pass near Fusio. Later the species has also been found, in a but slightly different form, at Pontresina in the upper Engadine. In shape and size like cassiope, but nearer melampus in pattern. Ground-colour dark brown, as in most Erebias, the female being distinctly paler. The narrow russet-brown distal band of the forewing is separated by the veins into 5—6 rounded or ovate spots which bear small black dots; the spots in cellules 4 and 5 are generally somewhat elongate and bear a stronger black dot than the others. The hindwing above bears before the outer margin 4 russet-yellow rounded spots with black dots.
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