Dewy Ringlet (Erebia pandrose)
2024 photographs highlighted in yellow. 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. However, 2024 was an exceptionally late year and on 14 July they were still reasonably fresh as these images attest. |
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 |
| 53039 | M | a male, quite fresh in the context of the date. | 2550 |
| 53050 | F | a female, quite fresh in the context of the date. | 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
53039_male_Hautes-Alpes_14Jul24
53050_female_Hautes-Alpes_14Jul24
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
