''Erebia hispania'', the Spanish brassy ringlet, is a species of

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

of the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...

, endemic to the

Sierra Nevada The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily ...

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 ''Erebia rondoui'', the Pyrenees brassy ringlet, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in France and Spain,wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...

is 34–42 mm. Adults are on wing from July to August. The larvae feed on various grasses, including ''

Festuca ''Festuca'' (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae). They are evergreen or herbaceous perennial tufted grasses with a height range of and a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on every ...

'' species.

References

* (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
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Erebia Butterflies of Europe Butterflies described in 1868 Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler {{Satyrini-stub