Dewy Ringlet (Erebia pandrose)
2022 photographs highlighted in blue. Click on any photograph to go to an enlarged picture, or simply scroll down the page.
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| A species that I saw for the first time in 2012. Not that it is particularly scarce, more that its flight period seems to be over by the end of the first week in July (at least in the localities I had visited), even though Lafranchis states that the flight period is June-July. Most of the specimens seen on 5 and 6 July were showing varying signs of wear. | It is quite a large Erebia with rather a slow flight that doesn't seem to go very far. It is a high altitude species, usually found within the range 2000m to 2400m. The sexes are rather similar on the upperside and the underside markings are similar, too, except that the unh ground colour of the female is rather browner than the male, often the case for Erebia. |
| ref | sex |
observations |
alt. m |
| 30690 | M | a male, rather worn, resting on a dried up cowpat. | 2550 |
| 45304 | M | a male, rather fresher than the pandrose I see at this location every year, the reason being that 2018 was a particularly "late" year. | 2550 |
| 30670 | F | a female, rather browner than the male and with a less well-defined upf post-discal band. | 2550 |
| 30726 | M | a male, quite a clean grey ground colour, settling into the grass as many Erebia do when the weather is slightly overcast. | 2550 |
| 36127 | M | a male, the unh having perhaps a slightly brownish tinge. | 2550 |
| 40773 | M | a male, with a nice clean silvery unh ground colour. | 2360 |
| 30669 | F | a female, showing nicely the much browner ground colour of the unh. | 2550 |
| 45341 | F | a female, rather heavily marked by pandrose standards, which could have been confused with other Erebia species which look not unlike this, except that there are clues that confirm that it is pandrose. | 2550 |
30690_male_Hautes-Alpes_6Jul12
45304_male_Hautes-Alpes_5Jul18
30670_female_Hautes-Alpes_6Jul12
30726_male_Hautes-Alpes_6Jul12
36127_male_Hautes-Alpes_14Jul14
40773_male_Alpes-Maritimes_24Jun16
30669_female_Hautes-Alpes_6Jul12
45341_female_Hautes-Alpes_5Jul18
