Erebia mancinus, the taiga alpine, is a member of the subfamily Satyrinae of the family Nymphalidae. It lives in subarctic North America from Labrador, northern Quebec, and northern Ontario, through the northern Prairie Provinces, northern British Columbia, and the interior of the Northwest Territories to Yukon and Alaska. It also ranges south in the mountains as far as Banff, Alberta. The habitat consists of black spruce-sphagnum bogs.[2]
| Taiga alpine | |
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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. mancinus
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| Binomial name | |
| Erebia mancinus | |
Adults are on wing in late June and July.[3]
The larvae probably feed on sedges or grasses.[2]
Similar species
edit- Disa alpine (E. disa)
- Ross's alpine (E. rossii)
- Four-dotted alpine (E. youngi)
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Erebia mancinus.
- ^ "Erebia Dalman, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ a b "Erebia mancinus". explorer.natureserve.org.
- ^ Taiga alpine (Erebia mancinus), Butterflies of Canada