LEPIDOPTERA

• S A T Y R I D A E Boisduval, 1833

  • EREBIA Dalman, 1816

    
    

    • Erebia embla (Thunberg, 1791)

Erebia embla (Thunberg, 1791)

· TYPE LOCALITY. "Vasterbotten" [Vasterbotten, Sweden].

· RANGE. From Fennoscandia and the N. European part across the Altai, Middle and S. Siberia to the Chukot Peninsula, Kamchatka, the Ussuri region; N. Mongolia and N. Korea.

· DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. The N. European part, N. and East Siberia - the nominate subspecies; the Altai and Sayan Mts., Transbaikalia - ssp. dissimulata Warren, 1931; the Far East, the Chukot Peninsula, Kamchatka, the Amur and Ussuri regions, Sakhalin - ssp. succulenta Alpheraky, 1897 (= septentrionalis Esaki et Hori, 1929).

· TAXONOMIC NOTES. The subspecies dissimulata and succulenta may prove to be synonyms as the differences between them are very slight.

· HABITAT AND BIOLOGY. Wet meadows and tundras, sometimes slopes and forest edges up to 2,000 m a.s.l. Flight period: June-July. Host plants in Europe (Henriksen, Kreutzer, 1982): Carex, Deschampsia.

· SIMILAR SPECIES. E. disa: UPH almost always without ocelli. E. rossi: UPS ocelli small.

Photo and text: Guide to the BUTTERFLIES OF RUSSIA and adjacent territories Volume 1. PENSOFT, Sofia - Moscow. 1997