Erebia hispania, the Spanish brassy ringlet, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, endemic to the Sierra Nevada of southern Spain. The taxon rondoui (from the Pyrenees), previously considered as a subspecies of Erebia hispania, is considered now as a different species (Erebia rondoui) according to the results obtained in molecular studies.
| Spanish brassy ringlet | |
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| E. hispania male (upper and underside) and female (underside) - | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Erebia |
| Species: | E. hispania
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| Binomial name | |
| Erebia hispania Butler, 1868
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The wingspan is 34–42 mm. Adults are on wing from July to August.
The larvae feed on various grasses, including Festuca species.
E. hispania is a member of the brassy ringlet species complex.
References
edit- Gil-T, F. (2018): About the distribution -updated and corrected- of Erebia hispania Butler, 1868, endemic in the Sierra Nevada (South Spain) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). ISSN 0171-0079|Atalanta 49 (1/4): 111-114. (PDF)