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Erebia mancinus

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Taiga alpine
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Erebia
Species:
E. mancinus
Binomial name
Erebia mancinus

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]

Adults are on wing in late June and July.[3]

The larvae probably feed on sedges or grasses.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ "Erebia Dalman, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ a b "Erebia mancinus". explorer.natureserve.org.
  3. ^ Taiga alpine (Erebia mancinus), Butterflies of Canada