Biology:Erebia mancinus

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Taiga alpine
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Erebia
Species:
E. mancinus
Binomial name
Erebia mancinus
Doubleday, 1849[1]

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]

Adults are on wing in late June and July.[3]

The larvae probably feed on sedges or grasses.[2]

Similar species

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2840072 entry