Erebia mancinus
| Taiga alpine | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Erebia |
| Species: | E. mancinus
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| Binomial name | |
| 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.[2]
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.[3] Adults are on wing in late June and July.[4]
The larvae probably feed on sedges or grasses.[2]
Similar species[]
- Disa alpine (E. disa)
- Ross's alpine (E. rossii)
- Four-dotted alpine (E. youngi)
References[]
- ^ "Erebia Dalman, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ a b "Erebia mancinus". explorer.natureserve.org.
- ^ BAMONA
- ^ Taiga alpine (Erebia mancinus), Butterflies of Canada
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- Erebia
- Butterflies described in 1849
- Butterflies of North America
- Satyrini stubs