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de Prunner's Ringlet, Erebia triaria

Erebia triarius

Photo by arlanda
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Field Notes

Description:

Mountain butterfly confined to the mountains of the center and south of Europe.

It is a small butterfly, dark brown with an orange colour postpostdical band decorated by white-centered black ocella, generally five at the front wings and four at the hindewings.

The reverse of the frontwings is the same as the anverse and that of the hindewings is brown without decorations.

Occurs in the north of Portugal, in some mountainous areas in north and central Spain (including Sierra de Cuenca, Sierra de Gredos, Sierra de Guadarrama and Cantabrian Mountains), the Pyrenees, the Alps of France, south of Switzerland and Italy and of the Balkans in Croatia, south of Bosnia and Albania. Its elevational range is 400-2,500 m. This is a European endemic species.

Habitat:

Spotted at a pine tree forest at high altitude. Parque Nacional Sierra de Guadarrama

Notes:

Camera Model: NIKON D300. Exposure Time: 1/640 sec.; f/13; ISO Speed Rating: 800. Focal Length: 300.0 mm. No Flash

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