LEPIDOPTERA

• S A T Y R I D A E Boisduval, 1833

  • EREBIA Dalman, 1816

    
    

    • Erebia pawlowskii Menetries, 1859

Erebia pawlowskii Menetries, 1859

· TYPE LOCALITY. "...de la riviere Grande Sibagli" [Great Sibagly River basin, central Yakutia, Russia].

· RANGE. From the Sayan Mts. and N. Mongolia across Yakutia to Kamchatka; N. America.

· DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. This taxon has been treated earlier as a subspecies of E. maurisius. The nominate subspecies (= herzi Christoph, 1889) is distributed in the Chukot Peninsula, Kamchatka, Transbaikalia and the Far East. In the E. Sayan Mts., the ssp. sajana Staudinger, 1894 has been recorded.

· HABITAT AND BIOLOGY. Meadows and sparse larch forests up to 1,500 m a.s.l. Flight period: June-July. Host plants in N. America (Scott, 1986): Carex spp. Hibernation twice.

· SIMILAR SPECIES. E. maurisius: UNF and UNH pale postdiscal bands better developed and uniform in colour.

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