Butler, 1868
Spanish Brassy Ringlet
Description:
The Spanish Brassy Ringlet inhabits alpine grasslands, grassy slopes with bushes, grassy rocky slopes, and screes on both calcareous and non-calcareous soils. This species only occurs locally, but sometimes in large numbers.
Its food plants are various fescues (Festuca spp.) and meadow-grasses (Poa spp.).
The caterpillars hibernate, pupating the following spring.
Habitat:
Alpine grasslands
Screes
Similar species:
Erebia cassioides